It was a practical trip, straight across the country. No pit stops at canned meat museums, no national parks. Just a whole lot of Wynebraskowa.

i writebecauseit is the only wayi can reach you.

Experience all things.

The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.

That is the problem with being twelve. All the grown-ups think they have a right to know your business.

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.

I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones.

I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.

An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.