I hope my organization will not be around in 10 years, because at a national, state, and community level, we will have evolved into a society that cares about children and the need for play.

Only one in five children in the U.S. lives within walking distance of a park. Many more lack access to a quality early childhood education that provides ample time and space to play.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.

You can't help hearing things that are popular when you're young and impressionable.

(Those who) impute such actions to God, as make Him resemble the worst of beings, and so run into downright Demonism.

Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.

I am determined to enjoy each day to the fullest. I don't want to wish away Christmas. I want to enjoy these last moments of Advent and look forward to Jesus's birth with anticipation.

I have definitely had experiences where I can feel the shift from simply living my life to being slightly outside of my life and taking notes.

In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on women for the same reason we do more research on rats than we do on humans.