I can't say I was a very successful sorority girl.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

You are not permitted to live and die as a non-entity because you have encountered the greatness that is associated with Christ.

He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions but they hold him.

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

I am all about new beginnings. A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account. Why not a new relationship with the press?

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

The world is going on because not all can be free of desires. People with desires are born again and again.

Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.

They do not truly love who do not show their love.