Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

That's the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they're far wiser than the elder ones could ever be.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Mountains are where heaven meets earth.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

I was just sick of being fat, you know? You get sick of it. It just really, it's a tiring lifestyle to have.

What's the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that's empty?

When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.

Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

I consider myself more spiritual than religious.