Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it's coming, a common response is, 'Oh no! Not again!'

I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.

Jimmy Van Heusen was a top security test pilot in World War II as well as being a great songwriter. He was absolutely incredible. Van Heusen inspired me to write music.

Don't use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and don't worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.

I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is.

I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

Have you ever noticed that if there's a hard way and an easy way, you choose the hard way every time? Why do you think that is?

Don't let your failures define you.

In the scullery kitchens and probably the salt mines of this world, many a child is not so much raised as hammered into shape, Artie. To be of use. Surviving by the grace of utility alone.