Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.

Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard

Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.

I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.

You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?

It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.

You wouldn't want to be caught wearing cheap perfume would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct?

The curves of his smile become the waves in my ocean.

I may have my fault's but being wrong isn't one of them

The gospel of the glory of Christ spreads better and flourishes more because of 6, 500 languages, not in spite of them.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which forever sings and sings.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Prayer is where the cross changes shoulders.