The best cure for sadness is doing something.

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.

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

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.

Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.

God speak to us through dreams, prayer and reading of Holy Bible.

Never let the light in your eyes fade...You are beautiful just the way youare..

A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.

What is interesting, as well, is how much power homicide detectives have and how much respect. They are kind of rock stars, especially in New York. There are not that many of them.

He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.

In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.