Perfection is a ridiculous goal because there is no such thing. Real beauty is what you are inside.

Anger is easier than forgiveness.

When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?

Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.

Nobody seems to care that with every push to live up to their expectations, my own dreams vaporize.

What we strive for, ultimately, is love. You won't find real love because you're beautiful on the outside. It is drawn to inner beauty. Spend your energy crafting that, and you will know true love.

Yes, it takes two to dance. But somebody has to lead.

Tying the know means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.

Back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the person who first turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry. Never allow an enemy to see weakness in you.

...what good would it do toshutter your windows, neverdream of rainbows or find hopein promises? Why choose to walk awayrather than hold your groundand fight for love?

Parenting should be a passion, not a part-time pursuit.

Each day the sun kisses the earth goodnight yet now two sunsets are alike

The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got went way out of alignment, especially at the top end.

Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three

It's almost scary how good things are right now. I've been engaged now for about a year and it's the first time anything like that has happened to me.

As an extension of Christ in the lives of his children is the only trend enough for a woman's precious energies.

I'm not so widely known that I'm going to be pigeonholed

I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.

In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.