I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

Don’t believe the negative criticisms. You are capable beyond measure

Luck Doesn't Exist in one's world, its the unexplainable and the unexpected that makes some question fate

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

It's definitely surreal to watch yourself in a movie.

Read less, study less, but think more

I am convinced that the influence of an army of godly women will be incalculable--in our homes, our churches, and our culture. Will you be one of those women?

Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they do little editing on my characters.

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars