When you deserved it, even the mail could rape you.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.

Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.

Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.

You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?

What if I don’t like adventure?Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.

You can be two things if you're a woman, Dolores. Betty Crocker or a floozy. Just remember your place - even if it kills you.

Without overcoming the obstacles on the path, how can you get to the top of the mountain?

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

Cancer affects everyone, and it's up to all of us to support the important research that can one day make a much sought-after cure a reality.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

I don't think of myself as a lion. You might as well, though, I have a mighty roar.

It doesn't matter whether we live in the 19th or 21st centuries; we face the same basic problems that everyone who lives between the Fall and the return of Christ faces.

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily.

Evil can be helped to fade away more quickly if we remain in obedience to the Law of Love - evil must be overcome with good.

The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.

The resolve to diet is most easily summoned on a full stomach.