You trust wholly or not at all. Trust was not divisible.

Do good and throw it in the sea; if God doesn't see it, the fishes will.

Beauty is only bearable when you're happy.

emotion without discipline is as dangerous as a high-powered car without brakes.

Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that it had become a habit with her.

Joy could be as exhausting as grief.

Time is the measure of that which changes.

The spirits of children are remote and wise...

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up & do them

There ought to be an onus on the people that want a law, rather than people that don't need a new law.

My journal is my life's companion.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.

There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed.