I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice.

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

Oh no." I said panic rising in my chest. "No, no, no, Somebody get a can opener. I've got a god in my head!!

Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

Right, " Sadie said. "And Set will just stand there calmly while I read him to death.

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth, ” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?

They told us to buy duct tape and portable radios so that if the world does end, we can all listen to Rush Limbaugh blame it on Clinton.

When things go wrong, simplify.

Tomorrow's trials concerned her more than yesterday's triumphs.

I would say sleep can always be emphasized - I didn't do it enough in my 20s, because you don't think you need it.

I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of the whole race.

Israel uses weapons to safeguard civilians. Hamas uses civilians to safeguard weapons.

Basically, I wear sandals, like Jesus. When it gets cold in Chicago, the snow way up to my knees, I still wear my sandals. But that's me.

People should be judged on the things they do, not how they look.

No movie can be a downer that fills you with pure exhilaration. You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic.

I think, by this point, almost everything on YouTube has some ad or another.