Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.

Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.

A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.

Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

It's the family you choose that counts.

We have a problem

I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.

I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.

Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.

It's important to me that youth everywhere, no matter their race, religion, or gender, know that anything is possible with perseverance.

If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.

Calvaryites are sometimes a little too heavily oriented to the written Word.

Thing that was very different for me is that an American child's reading is filled with Americans.

... and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.