Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?

As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

For me, the audience is the most important thing in the whole chain, so finding out how they respond to things is a learning curve at all times.

I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.

Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.

A lot of the time, I won't read the script until my second or third audition just 'cause a lot of the scripts are the same and the characters are the same.

Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

I'm open to any collabos if the price is right, just hit up my manager.