Elizabeth Smart

I will feel like a success if I raise my children to be kind and happy people.

That was very comforting to me to hold onto that belief, that I did have a heavenly Father who was watching over me.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

You are always special. Nothing can change that.

Privacy is so sacred, and any time a victim is returned, a survivor is found and rescued, privacy is one of the greatest gifts we can give them because if they decide to share, that's up to them, and they will come forward.