I don't understand people who say they're bored. Look out your window.

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.

Don't try to follow in my footsteps. Make your own footsteps! No one else can tell the stories that are inside of you except for you.

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

So the incompetents in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s state capital, knew or should have known that, even by their own lax rules, Gosnell should not have been carrying out abortions—but they didn’t care.

Know who you are, feed the flower.

The coolly calibrated manipulation of the credulous American public, by an administration bent upon stoking paranoid patriotism!

Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever.

Success always has a price; success, with integrity, is the real bottom line.

None are so sinful that they cannot find strength, purity, and righteousness in Jesus, who died for them.

I'm about being the best.

The question is, when does the therapeutic community end and the reality kick back in Then, what do you do with them

If beauty is truth, why don't women go to the library to have their hair done?

I always tell the kids that excellence is like pregnancy. You can't be a little bit pregnant. You either are or you're not.