The Holy Spirit said I was blessed and was going to touch hearts everywhere.

My dogs are about unconditional love. It's so wonderful to walk in the door from a long day and all they want to do is be loved and to give and give.

Keep on shining, keep on smiling, don't lose faith, and don't lose heart. When you're crying, just keep trying to remind yourself, you're a shining star, yes you are.

Online bullying has to stop.

I believe for everyone who goes astray, someone will come to show the way.

You can't break what's broken already.

I will love you all my life and when I die I will still love you through eternity and beyond.

I've never heard a song written from a stepmother's point of view, about their family.

Even one kid going hungry in America is one too many. How can we stand by when the reality is that there are more than 12 million underfed children in the U.S.? We can make a difference.

No matter which way I move you, that's a powerful thing to be able to do.

People are so quick to judge and make decisions for themselves about situations they know absolutely nothing about.

You need to do an inventory of yourself to discover your calling and purpose

…if you will quit squirming about and be patient you will see that most things in life, wishes included, do not have immediate results.

Carla was wearing a No Fear sweatshirt. You are too old, Amy wanted to tell her, for legible clothing.

It was cool at the rock camp - girls could just be themselves and they could be silly, they could roll around on the floor playing guitar.

A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

As one gets older, one can get tired. But only when your heart gives out does your strength give in. For me, all this is an affair of the heart.

It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

Mainly, life experiences with my family or travelling as a young kid, I feel like I had a different lifestyle than a lot of people leaving on tour when I was fourteen and stuff, so I pull from that.