Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

No kindness is ever wasted, nor can we ever tell how much good may come of it.

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape of a girl.

There's no short-cut to becoming strong. Even if you try to look strong on the outside, that thin layer will soon fall off.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

Even when life may be difficult, we should thank God for all He does for us-which we do not deserve.

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.

It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.

Geniuses never pay attention.

I hardly ever missed school, and I always got my work in on time. I was a good student and always got top grades.