If God gave us everything we asked for, we'd be in chaos.

You know what I think? I think that if a young woman doesn't engage in the act of occasionally wishing on a star or a flower or a birthday cake full of candles, then we're forfeiting one of the sweetest whimsies of our youth.

In Africa we having a saying, 'If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.' ...Before I go back home, I want you to consider us, Katie. Ponder what it would be like if we went together. Not alone and fast but together and far.

We all need to have dreams. The question is, does the dream control you or do you control the dream?

Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.

I think it's possible to realize you love someone as deeply as you know how to love and not end up spending the rest of your life with him.

It's funny whom we end up choosing to love and who ends up choosing to love us. It's rarely the people we think it should be.