If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now

Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.

A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both thrilling and terrifying together.

To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.

The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.

As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.

I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!

I preferred to read than talk with the others.

So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.

No doves come from ravens’ eggs

When did a smile ever get anyone into trouble?

What would people think?'Jesus said that people think all sorts of things. The human mind is like a cloud of gnats. Constant motion. That's why you have to look at the heart.'Oh, ' said Grandpa.

I've seen what you're going to understand, dear.It made me patient when confronting your temper.

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.

I never get to wear a suit in my life, much less a tuxedo. It's kind of really fun to get to dress up, because you take yourself a little more seriously if you dress nice in a starched shirt.

I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player.

Do not take hold of a past that no longer serves you, but embrace the stillness that is right now.

It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.