It's time for us all to step up. We've been extremely successful, but to be honest it's a reality check for everybody.

The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you make them, they already look so aged.

I want to help you grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena. Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning.

You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map.

If I stop pushing you, if I stop demanding of you, if I stop getting on you, then I probably don't think you have much to offer.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.