We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

They alone live, who live for others.

The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer.

They got everything money can buy, their bank accounts are fat, but they ain't happy. They ain't ever gonna be happy. You know why? They soul broke. And money can't fix that, no sir.

The greatest tragedy is not death but a life without love

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

I'll never have a stylist.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.