Marriage was a goal. A family, for me as a young girl, was my image of what I hoped for. It was part of the big picture.

I like to connect to people in the virtual world, exchanging thoughts and ideas, when in the physical world we might never have the opportunity to cross paths.

Real men don't buy girls-they protect them. We're recruiting real men who have the courage to stand up against this issue.

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.

Time is an amazing equalizer. I think if you stay true to yourself and keep moving forward, things come around.

There is no way to reach your fullest potential if you don't really find the love of yourself.

I'm a big believer in that if you focus on good skin care, you really won't need a lot of makeup.

There's something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration. It's like a fine wine. There's a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes into the smoking of a fine cigar.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive.

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It’s not good idea to always dance with the day’s tune.

Creation is more than an accident of dead matter. It's a romance. It has purpose. It sings of the Living God. It bears his signature.

I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.

The main thing is to win.

The greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong assignment.

I don’t believe in magic. I believe in hard work.

There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

I don't want to shove the Bible down someone's throat with my music. That's not my goal.

Words, words. They're all we have to go on.