I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

judge not that ye be not judged

Beauty doesn't make happiness

[Home educator] take time during the holidays to catch your breath and enjoy homeschooling in a new, refreshing way (and to learn the value of bookmarks like I did.☺)

God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

You couldn't change the past. You could only go forward

somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near

We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

Every bridge is a holy saint; it helps everyone who comes to him and protects them from the precipices!

Lipstick can glam up a whole look, especially in red.