"What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real."

"I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children."

"You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'"

"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."

"And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough."

"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

"Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future."

"The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices."