Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.

Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.

People make the world go, and Mothers make people, so they lead the dance.

There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.

I don't pretend to see the path, but I know it's there all the same. One day, we'll look back and wonder how we ever missed it.

Choose a book, ... Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer.

You are my daughter. I would love you if you put out the sun.

Fear and pain can only touch you if you let them.

Embrace the pain, Sharum.

To shift a few grains of sand is no more a sign of great strength than to see the sun a sign of great sight. There is no glory in dominating the weak.

The best day to pray is everyday.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst.

What I like about it is that I'm not somebody who's in movies. I'm a guy who's not very good going around the track with a bunch of guys who are a hell of a lot better.

How can he do this? If you were mine, I would fight to keep you. I would die, before I let you go.

I've never written songs about relationships. I've written songs about how I feel. The songs are more about me, than another person. That's the way I like to look at it.

I think bullies are very lonely people. I always tell teenagers not to bully others because it's unacceptable. We need to teach students to value themselves and to not put others down.

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.

You cannot always wait for the perfect time. Sometimes you must dare to jump.