Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about.

It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful.

In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.