What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.

We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.

Woman is as common as a loaf of bread, and like a loaf of bread, will rise.

We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.

Everyone wants Love to follow them / down their road; / where is it that Love wants to go?

Those who believe they are ugly / objectify the rest of us.

The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors.

From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all.

We cam leave the rat race to rodents... but I suspect that even they wouldn't like it.

When we stop looking for someone to complete us... We find completion in ourselves.

Laura smiled a little wanly in the twilight. "Far more afraid of flesh and blood than ghosts, " she murmured.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.

I have voted for a Republican for president ever since I was voting and since I was 18 years old.

When I think of my best days as husband, I find I was doing what Regi said in this book. What Radical Husbands Do is a practical book I can safely give any man who is struggling in his marriage.

If you are pissing people off, you know you are doing something right

There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.