Long ago she'd clamped an iron shell around her heart and nothing and no one could pry it lose, but deep inside the tender flesh still beat.

She raised her head and saw a squadron of fighter planes. She stretched her hand high as if she could grab hold and climb away from what she had done, from who she was.

Ruth wiped her eyes. Successful at a price? Forgiven but damaged? She wished so much more for her baby sister.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.

When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, but God did.

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.

The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.

Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.