I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest.

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!

She gets to school late. Bashful gives her a tardy, and won't reconsider. Janie always hated Bashful. Stupidest. Dwarf. Ever.

My message is really that racism has no place in the hearts and minds of our children.

(Adron leveled a scowl that made him shrink back.) Jeeze, you ought to bottle that look. I know armies that would pay a fortune to have something that toxic in their arsenal. (Tiernan)

If you were a kid and you wanted to come out and make a statement now, you'd have to really dig deep to find something that no one has exposed already.