If I don't have anything to sacrifice, I don't have anything to gain. From the Bible I have learned if you want something good, you must sacrifice.

If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.

I still do intense interval training. I like miles and quarters best. In races I can set my mind, and I believe I could break 2:20 again.

I found I could also be good in cross country. I don't think my running style has anything to do with it. If you have speed and your body feels good, you can do any distance.

God does not have any business with irresponsible people.

Focus on your relationship with God, make doing His wills your priority and together with Him you will be the head and not the tail

Greatness in the making feels just like you feel right now

I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.

Perhaps this is why lunatics have a harder time dating, not because they are off the wall but because it is hard to find soemone who is willing to date so many people in one person.

If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow.

I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The others are still very close.