HENDERSON, I LOVE YOUR NAME. I LOVE YOUR NOVEL. I LOVE YOUR FLANNEL SHIRTS, YOUR SMILE. I LOVE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND DINOSAURS AND VOLCANOES.

I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.

I told you growing starts from the inside first, honey, and in that way, you've been growing like wildfire.

A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to the path of destruction.

I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who shows her unconditional love, respect, and confidence.

We may propose many plans, let's but remember that God can dispose our plans, propose a new and better ones and impose them on us!

Oh no. I'm not gonna let you leave yet. I'm gonna show you the value of takin' your time to get to work. I probably should have done this a long time ago.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult.

Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.

The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

I do feel a responsibility because most people like me that are my age or younger, they don't quite make it over to the jazz side. They flirt with it, but they don't quite marry it.