As a little girl, I'd have given up my Barbie Dreamhouse to have a miniature purple dragon - as an adult, I didn't find it nearly as exciting.

No matter who you are, or what side of the tracks society thinks you are from, if you wake up wanting to write, then do what you must to write.

Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' Whatever happens is to His good purpose and for His glory. I am not afraid.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day

Anybody that really knew Tupac will tell you the same thing. That he was just a dude that was full of life, full of energy.

When I came to Hollywood, I spoke no English - except nobody bullied me. Every day, I had nothing to do except training in English, to keep talking.

I swear by Neutrogena facial wash - I never sleep in my makeup!

You would hope that the supposed best of American educational institutions would teach its students about America as an institution.

In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.

I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states.