“The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves. To find beauty. To engage the world around us. To create memories.”

“We may have doubts, but we control the present. We always have the choice to move forward with hope and confidence.”

“I dream that someone will love me as a person so wholly that it won't matter whether I have gray pubic hair or sagging breast.”

“Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.”

“God makes each one of us for the time into which we are born. He creates us for a purpose. Our job is to know Him well, discover what He created us to do, and then do it for all we're worth for the rest of our lives. Ask God to show you your purpose. He will answer.”

“What we say, my child, has an impact on those around us. Words can spread darkness and hate or shed light and love. Don’t misuse them, Daphne.”

“We often speak of creating an environment for reading, a reading climate.”