For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label.

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.

If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.

I just think that 'dating' is an engagement and not 'fun'." Emily says.

The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice of the law.

The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.

There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.

Bob Seger was a huge inspiration.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.