I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a trail alone.

I loved my mother too, ' I said. 'I still do. That's the thing - it never goes away, even if the person does.

Happiness is the anticipation of future happines.

I wished to no longer hear the grayed bones crunching underneath the brush or feel the now inexorable fear that seemed to work its way inside my rib cage, rocking me at my core.

She was on a real, grown-up adventure, no matter how badly it should turn out.

In prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friends.

A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

You don't have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.

We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.

When you express gratitude everyday, you give yourself the gift of experiencing the joy of gratitude everyday. Give yourself that gift today!

It was unfortunate for other women who might come after [Margaret Thatcher] that the first woman to become prime minister was a male impersonator.

I am proud of who I am, and nobody's going to steal that.

Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.

I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.