Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think.

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

A clock only turns one direction

I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a porch from which a single road leads only homeward.

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?

How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever.

Getting out of bed is a good way to leave your troubles behind.

The best cure for sadness is doing something.

We are a noisy and blessed little family

[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives.

At times, it's better to think of exactly what is happening right in front of you every second, rather than going through things from the past in your mind.

For if our bodies aren’t our own, And justice isn’t ours, And our love is just a sin, And voices by the peopleAre no longer for the people, What have we left to lose?

God’s blessings causes the other person to pay attention to you and favor you

There's a world of difference between a dog that is off the leash and a dog that is trained to be off the leash.

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.

Based on my own experiences, I made sure, and I'm proud of this, that the Common Core curriculum is hard on plagiarizers.

It's a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.

How would I like to be remembered? As a person who came and brought light to the world, some escapism. Also as the voice for the voiceless children, because I love them.

You just have to decide if you're a Tigger or an Eeyore.

God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!