Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose to serve her students, not her school board.

I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.

I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

I've always shot on film, but the times are changing.

If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.

Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

To the extent that in one's act of faith one participates in the truth through reason and heart, faith already implies a particular level of knowledge and of certainty.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it and that is the grave.

I'm the oldest son of a crazy man, I'm in a cowboy band.

According to the National Academy of Sciences, our current immigration system costs America's taxpayers many billions of dollars a year.

Big deal... the only cats that don't have three legs are the ones with two through zero legs.

Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.

The last thing I wanna do is sit home and watch television.

It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.

I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.