“sugar, if you ain't on speaking terms with The Lord, what right you got to ask Him to help you out?”

“The worst handicap you can have is a lack of belief in yourself!Lani Deauville”

“She'd bottled herself up like a person already cremated.”

“It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.”

“Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.”

“If I could give you one key, and one key only to more abundant life, I would give you a sense of your own worth, an unshakeable sense of your own dignity as one grounded in the source of the cosmic dance, as one who plays a unique part in the unfolding of the story of the world…”

“You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.”