But mom's been depressed ever since her last boyfriend turned out to be a Republican.

I love the Princess Diaries series! Do you?

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear.

Music is the language of the heart, the language of the soul, the language of nature and the language of the universe.

But thought has no eyelids to close or ears to block...

God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.

It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.

The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action.

Me and my dog are best friends.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.