If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives.

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.

It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.

The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.

I've always been a very good judge of people. That's why I like so very few of them.

Am I crazy Loretta?" "A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things.

Everybody wants to know why we're here, so we search for that answer. We want to know who we belong to so we search for those people and all the while God is whispering, 'Here I am.

Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.

Christmas isn't a parade or concert but a piece of home you keep in your heart wherever you go.

I do not know what to do with the emotions inside me. I do not know how to be this close to someone and still hold on to myself.

Find then follow the path that enables you to live the life you want to live. Don't be blow by the winds of fate. Don't be a creation of circumstances.

She counted each second, each moment of life stolen from her, moving her closer to death.

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

I can't wait to be a mum for a bit. I'm always a mum, of course, but I want to be domesticated and be in my house and do the school runs and all that.

Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.

Every act of communication is an act of translation.

I believe a writer is an eye, a pervasive eye that sees the reality that surrounds us, as well as the impression it makes on our souls. It reacts — or does not react — by putting it on paper.

Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.

A stock doesn't know that you own it.