It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.

Conversations between parents and kids are important, about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage.

Women are skinny for other women. Men want something they can actually hold on to.

Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.

Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

Obedience is the key ingredient in living out God’s plan for you.

But when I think of us, in the quiet when I'm on my own, I think of Beauty and the Beast.I, being the beast, and you being the last beautiful thing in this city.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time.

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing.

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.

When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak.