when you fall into a pit, you either die or get out.

The world is not a permanent home, it is only a temporary dwelling.

All mankind is sitting on Death Row. How we die or when is not the main issue, but where [we] go after death.

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother, in her godly wisdom, had diagnosed and cauterized it.

I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves

Anyway, you know good and well it would be beyond the will of God, and the grace of the King

We go up to the high places not to see what is up there but to see how the lower places look from the top!

I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.

I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.

One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered.