In a classroom, when it’s silent, they’re thinking. You’ve got to give them time to think.

Never embarrass a student in front of others. Embarrass yourself often to relieve the tension, but do not paint them into a corner.

Otherwise the silence in the room was profound, the silence of places Brian had not yet been: gazing at the lifeless body of a beloved, the echo of a lost illusion, the tinnitus of betrayal.

How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point?

Cinema serves as a constant reminder to us of who we are and what we are made of.

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

Are you outside or inside the work­? You don't really know.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm

She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that.

It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it.