My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.

Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God's personal concern.

God draws straight with crooked lines.

It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.

Matthew had won this battle—a battle in a war marked no more by yards on an open field, but by scars unseen.

Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.

You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

It's not our weaknesses that frighten us. It's our strengths.

Women should have choices, and women should feel good in what they wear.

We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.

At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.

Love is the eternal first breath.

After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends.