I'll always be best known as Marie Osmond, but in my checking account and at home, I will gladly be Marie Craig.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

Life can be real tough... you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over.

You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.

This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself.

You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.

I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.

In the pursuit of knowledge, we know God.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.

There are lots of authentic, moving characters in so-called systems novels, just as there are certainly deep structural ideas in some character-driven novels.

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

We don't preach salvation. We preach forgiveness.

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

There is only one race, the human race.