If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Police officers seem nice until they start targeting you for stops, give you a bogus speeding ticket and write fake police reports about their interactions with you

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.

Were there certain things that I didn't feel were dignified enough to make it into the movie? Yeah.

God answers prayer in three ways: yes, no, and wait awhile.

Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.

Black people beating whites when a thug got shot holding a gun by a black officer haha (expletive) cracks me up! Keep kneeling for the anthem!

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefitted.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?