Now I understand - how sleep allows you to forget, but your pain wakes with the dawn, worse because for a split second you don't remember what you've suffered.

I don't understand how the pain of losing him can be a pale shadow in comparison to the pain of finding him again.

But recognizing the ridiculousness of an emotion and being able to master it are two very different things, I'm finding.

And maybe that's love, too - feeling the other person's hurts like your own.

No one controls who we turn into but us.

The scars are just something that happened to me. They aren't me. Not anymore.

The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?

One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.

And happiness is always louder than sadness.

Wearing a bikini on a magazine cover is my 41st birthday present to myself.

Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?

If you want to find greater happiness and fulfillment in your life, you must begin to understand and live in harmony with the law of attraction.

I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.

God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.