...The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.

The trouble with drowning in the mess of your own life is that you're not in any shape to save anyone else. You can't be a lighthouse when you're underwater yourself.

Help them to show the world that our greatness is not in things we do for ourselves, but in things we do for others.

We can talk about it, dream about it and dissect the fine print.In the end, only action satisfies our longing.

He made me feel wanted - good about myself, even. Like he immediately accepted me for me, no questions asked.

The Kingdom of God wasn't born on the Fourth of July.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

I like to dress pretty basic during the day, but with a sophisticated bohemian spin, and sometimes a little rock chic. At night I like to go glamorous.

Power comes and goes. It can vanish in the twinkling of an eye, like smoke dissolving in the air.

Do It Badly - But at Least Do It!

My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.

Usually a song being hard to write is a sign that the song isn't good enough. It should be like a good kiss. Effortless and smooth.