We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.

A real miracle's a reminder and a warning that the line that separates the possible from the impossible isn't as firm as we like to think it is.

Make your heart, your dearest home.

Hate is only misdirected energy: it gets you nowhere.

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.

Many Christians understand the Bible to be a collection of stories without an overarching narrative.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.

I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen

The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go.