It's been much harder to forgive myself. My mistake was like a pebble dropped in a pond. The ripple effect has impacted everyone I love.

I'm more interested in lookin' forward than back. The past is done and there's no changin' it.

I'll try to turn the other cheek....But I've only got two and they're both stinging.

Could he really want a relationship with a woman who was at the point in life of trading beauty for wisdom?

I am what I am... but for the first time in my life, I'm sorry for it.

We can best honor our dead by livin' well. Moving' forward dusna mean y love them any less. It just means ye're still alive.

Maybe, now and then, we have to give up a portion of our kingdoms--the things we hold dearest--to find what it is God wants for us.

Naomi knew she should pray... Instead, she put her face in her hands and wept with all the force of a bursting dam.

The truth be told, Lord, I don't like you very much right now.

Men fight like men. Women fight like unchained demons.

Your happiness is a beacon of light in my life. Although you may not realize so now, your bright disposition will smooth many paths ahead for you. Whatever happens—don’t ever let that light go out.

Until you take time to discover yourself, you never know what you can achieve or how far you can go

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.

Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.

Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art.

When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right

When choosing sexual partners, remember: Talent is not sexually transmittable.