How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

We need to give an informative set of criteria for the best explanation. It is very difficult to do so. Here are some factors which should be taken into account

The greatest fear of those who rule is not the opposition but not to be taken seriously.

Words are seeds. They grow with time. Wisdom is to plant in your mind words that you desire to harvest.

A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

I'd love to teach a self-defense class for ladies, specifically about running away from psychos in masks chasing them with chainsaws.

Rats live on no evil star

In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that.

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.