The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.

If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life gives them vodka, and have a party.

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.

Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.

We are all woven together in the great web of humanity, and whatever we can do to benefit and uplift others will reflect in blessing upon ourselves.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul.

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.

This is the us you wanted us to be, Gwen.

Unless there was a reason for me to stay.

If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.

Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.

Jeans represent democracy in fashion.

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."