Persecution happens when we stand in the face of our enemy. Friendship with the world is to conspire with that same enemy.

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.

I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.

As we know the KGB is all over this election [2016].

America is a country no one should go to for the first time.

People don't mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I paid more attention to the way I looked before my children were born. Afterward, it wasnt important to look exactly right.

The blank page doesn't bother me. It's the voice in my head (not always my own) that gives me the yips. It's worse when I'm not making stuff up.

Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!