I don't invest in rich kids' businesses.

Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need -- the umbrella of God's love.

It's what you do when you grow up, apparently, face up to things you'd rather not and accept the fact that nobody is who you thought they were, maybe not even close.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books.

A mind, once formed, is never suited after, One yet in growth will ever grateful be. [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]

Oh ye of little faith. Not for IYD... But you didn't even try.

I actually studied cooking and, like, was thinking about becoming a chef.

The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.