Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

Easter is never deserved.

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

Your smile is what gets me through the day and my dreams of you are what gets me through the night.

Some books you read and savor. Some, you carry close to your heart.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you.

[Filming Payne] that was also the first time I worked with JoBeth Williams, which was also a case of not being the last time!

I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

Let the perfectionist play postal.