If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

Truth has the biggest mouth in the universe, wisdom has the largest ears, love has the strongest hands, and faith has the ablest feet.

Light the candle of success with the flame of excellence.

To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.

I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that.

I can be just as dirty. I could use my head or my elbows and we can we all dirty.

The things the writers have me doing on Suburgatory are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

Doing things for others always pays dividends.

We can't run from who we are; our destiny chooses us.

Expect the rapidly expanding homeschooling movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to build a free society with Constitutional protections.

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.