I assure you that some of the most awesome things God has ever done for me have come out of the most awful things I’d done to myself.

Let your light shine today, and let your personality blossom, too. You don't have to be a people-pleaser, just a people-lover.

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

A bruised heart that chooses to beat with a passion for God amid pulsing pain and confusion may just be the most expensive offering placed on the divine altar.

God uses change to change us. He doesn’t use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!

God has promised to every single one of us that even in our hardest times, if we would just hang on long enough, the blessing will come.

Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.

A broken heart heals when we allow the healing to go as deep as the wound went

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

Picture God nudging you and me awake before dawn because He can hardly wait to be with us.

With you, I am. Without you, I am not.

During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.

A book without conversation, is like a life without friends, you know it's going to end, but you want it to be soon.

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

You have to be a warrior and say, "Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine." (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads)

How it could have been different, how different decisions and events could have taken place. I'm not sure how it would have played out differently. I just didn't want it to play out the way it did.

If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge.

Mormons know that its not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.

I don't think that you want to see universities in any way trying to have any kind of quota system about political views, or views in general. You want the market to work in the way the market works.

It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.