Pick the things you do in this day wisely.

We all have the same root, and are connected...To tap into this connectedness we must go within.

Each stage of your lifeis like petals of a flower... unfolding and opening until it comes to full bloom...You will blossom and then you die...But know that this is not your ending.

Funny thing about the darkness... It can be defeated by the dimmest shimmer of light!So on your darkest days let even a little bit of light in

WE GROW IN SPIRIT WITH EACH LESSONLEARNED THROUGHEXPERIENCE...LET US BE THANKFULNO MATTER HOW PAINFULTHE LESSON!!!

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

For young adults, the growth from silly to serious can be very fast, indeed.

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

As I look back now, I really feel like God has called me not just to speak into the lives of believers but, even broader than that, to speak into the lives of people that are outside of the Church.

I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.

The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.

I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.