If it's important, your heart remembers.

Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.

I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.

It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?