Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you’ve set and followed your priorities.

Everything in our lives," she said quietly, "leads to everything else in our lives. So a moment in the present has a reference point, both in the past and in the future. I want you to know that you--as you are right now and as you ever will be--are fully enough for this moment . . .

As we come to know God better, we will also find it easier to know, follow, and accept His will for our life.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.