Always bear in mind that your feelings and emotions are always paying attention to your frequent thoughts and beliefs.

Tod's pale brows arched halfway up his forehead, and he looked suddenly, achingly wistful. "She knows not what she says..."Maybe not. But I was starting to get a pretty good idea...

Why must duty require me to break my own heart?

I should have bailed. That little voice had my back. That little voice is older than I am. It's older than the oldest person who ever lived. I should have listened to that voice.

People who say life is precious don't spend much time on line at the airport.

I have a hard time memorizing stuff. I'm always in the process of writing a new song, so trying to learn a new one takes a minute.

When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not.

What you risk reveals what you value.

I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.

The Internet is like a gold-rush; the only people making money are those who sell the pans.