But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.

You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

People aren't always what you want them to be

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Free the snow globes!

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

All things are possible.

I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

When you begin to actively participate in the creation of your life, there is never an end, even in death, for physics tells us that nothing is ever created nor destroyed, merely transformed.

I'm a girl who always looks at toilets and thinks Wow, how do we waste that much water when there are people who don't even have water?

O Death, O Beyond, Thou art sweet, thou art strange!

When you're passionate about God, you can trust your passions.

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

My prayer is: I will be what I will be, I will do what I will do.

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.

The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.

Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love.