The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.

My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.

Genuine transcendence doesn't just look away from human suffering and say, "I am at peace, so I'm at the mountaintop." Genuine transcendence looks human suffering in the eye and attains peace because of a faith in things unseen.

Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.

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

I think daily life is where the lessons come in - that's where the tests and the growth come in.

Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.