We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has.

At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.

You are a child of God, small games do not work in this world. For those around us to feel peace, it is not example to make ourselves small. We were born to express the glory of God that lives in us. It is not in some of us, it is in all of us. While we allow our light to shine, we unconsciously give permission for others to do the same. When we liberate ourselves from our own fears, simply our presence may liberate others.

There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God created us that way.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

If you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

...a miracles is a reasonable thing to ask for.