You are the only person that you'll have for the rest of your life. Cherish yourself. Treat yourself with kindness. Love yourself. Be your own caretaker.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.

Anyone who has genuinely seen God is deeply convicted of his or her own sin.

My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.

Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

Money is created by a machine... but you can't really create respect with a machine.

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.

The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.

Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.