I was just really appalled, and I really kept quiet until I saw the governor [Rick Perry] get on and repeat the same words that the prosecution had used in the penalty phase: that he [Todd Willingham] was a monster. And that got me to get on to the computer and connect with some of the media and say: "I have his letters. He wasn't a monster. He was a caring individual." Let them see another side.

At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message: You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.

Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?

My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you