Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

God used my year of waiting not to frustrate me, or abandon me, but to draw me into a closer relationship with Him.

To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.

God is running the universe. We ought not think like scientists, but think like psalmists.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

I am in Ghost Rider but I'm not sure when it's coming out.

Peacekeeping works in some situations, but it very often needs other ingredients. Peacekeeping is not the aspirin of international security.

I want to be involved in a story that makes a difference.

There is new hope among people that this dispensation can fulfill their aspirations.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11