How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control.

There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.

People are the most difficult thing in the world to change

I’m not a bad person. I haven’t killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don’t kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?

There’s a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

A bride never forgets her wedding ornaments, why should we forsake our heavenly Father, the bridegroom?

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

Drawing attention to myself has never been a goal.

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.

Growing another life inside of you is one of the strangest, but most amazing feelings anyone can have.

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

I'm against Trans-Pacific Partnership now. I'll be against it after the election. I'll be against it when I'm president.

I was looking at these actresses sort of sitting around under umbrellas, people bringing them cold drinks and I was like, 'That looks so much easier than what I'm doing' and I was so wrong.