I'm so thankful that there are people willing to do that - to actually carry a child nine months for someone.

Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child's friend. Parenting is about preparing your child to be a useful and respectful person in society.

Today's new age parenting guarantees you'll hear children screaming, whining, and begging for items and attention in an airplane, store or any other public place.

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

Books are the curse of the human race.

If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.

The cruelest form of death, I have no doubt, is not physical death. Rather it is that public death which comes from the killing of ideas about God.

I tend to pour myself into my music and I don't have a lot of other places my mind goes, unless it's spending time with family and friends.

We’re in the midst of a boom in home-based businesses, and it shows no sign of slowing.

I cannot be defined by what other people think.

Life's a short trip. You'll find out.

Love is an emotion. Totally silent and inexpressible with words.