Cocaine was different. It kept saying, "You haven't had enough." I became an abuser almost instantly.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they’re cramming for their final exam.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies.

But Jocelyn Morgenstern was not the kind of woman who wept, not the kind of woman who broke, or Valentine would have broken her long since.

I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!

I don't wish to not be a woman, but I'd certainly like to be a woman whose sense of purpose comes from within.

I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?

But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?

No created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord

It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.