How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. But all this took me a lifetime to discover, and where has it gotten me?... Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.