Lord keep Your arm around my shoulder and Your hand over my mouth.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.

When I was asked to do something good, I often say yes, I'll try, yes, I'll do my best. And part of that is believing, if God loves me, if God made everything from leaves to seals and oak trees, then what is it I can't do?

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?