Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

Flowers of all hue and without thorn the rose.

I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.

I like seeing women defined by what they do and what they're passionate about rather than the men that they're in love with or associated with. That's always more important to me, as a female.

About the time we get old enough to be as wicked as we want to be, we don't want to be so very wicked after all.

The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him.

Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.

It's always been my dream to play in the NBA.