Sometimes when we're waiting for God to speak, He's waiting for us to listen.

If you think marriage is going to be perfect, you're probably still at your reception.

I'm not very domestic. For years my children thought mold was a frosting.

I'd go to the end of the world for my husband. Of course, if he'd just stop and ask directions, I wouldn't have to.

I tan the easy way. I just wait for my liver spots to connect.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

A flower in a desert still has no reason to envy a thorn in a rainforest.

I have forgiven Sonora. I have forgiven New York, forsaken the recursion of history. But I do not yet know how to forgive myself.

Heart thoughts are profound, hindsight aches and hope is obscure. I'm craving a great adventure -- one that leads me back home.

Are we truly acting from principle and not from interest? Surely it is at least convenient that for us the two coincide.

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

Some children do what they’re told to do; some children do what they’re told not to do; all children do what they’re parents have done.

I study the Bible all week, pray to the Lord, and then I speak from my heart. It's all about brutal honesty.

It shouldn't make you sad to know you're loved, Grayson." But it did. It made him sad, and panicked, and for just a moment, wishful.