If I wanted to do wrong, I could not.

I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.

Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

Sudden total weight loss.

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that