Just because I'd spent so many years coloring inside the lines, it wasn't fair for me to expect perfection. People make mistakes. Life isn't fair. People change.

You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least understand.

We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.

And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic at all. Like the sound of an exhausted swallow falling gently to earth.

Right now, I'm just a girl, and there is also magic in that.

Dreamers and thinkers believe in innovative ideas and they become the greatest students of all time.

Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.

We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.

When there's no more room under the Christmas tree, Ken Foree will have a birthday.

A friend who won't respond to what a friend can't ask is like a looking glass in which you cannot see yourself.