I suppose you can never tell right off who might have a piece of Prince Charming deep down inside.

You can't get rid of a part that makes you you and be happy.

I wished that I...had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then leave me useless.

Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do?

You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.

When your kids get excited, let them have that feeling and share the excitement with them. Sharing makes it bigger.

Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.

The story I'm writing finds its own voice while I'm writing it.

the best compliment to a mother is to appreciate her little one.

Being a Christian doesn't mean that our struggles are necessarily different from those of non-Christians; it's just that our solution to the struggles is different.

... life falls into place only with God.

Theres a burgeoning film scene in Romania.

I'm from Arizona where I feel like our history, as a state, is so young in comparison to some of these wonderful southern cities and towns.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

There is nothing that you cannot do.