Not writing at all leads to nothing.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

people decided that trees have no feelings

Having confidence in your obedience, offers yourself confidence and love.

Help us to forgive ourselves as we struggle in our process of forgiving others."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

You will reach success if you move forward, staying still only makes your journey longer.

The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.

The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.

My family lives a pretty normal life.

No span of steel will tolerate...neglect. But if service by generations who use it and spared manmade hazards, such as war, it should have life without end.

Is it possible to be nostalgic about old fears?

[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.