She tried to swallow, to take a breath, but her eyes met his, and there was nothing but aching intensity in his gaze. And she was drawn in, swept away.

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

Life is a journey with almost limitless possibilities.

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

A creative person respects the creative spark in other individual men, and in all men (and women).

Your soul should be as strong as possible when it leaves here for whatever comes next.

Sometimes hate hurts more than love feels good. Just have to realize it's because we're more used to love. Let the haters stumble by.

God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.

Roberto Mancini's got that Italian style, the old joie de vivre.

Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others.

People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.