Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

What we call the beginning is often an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.

Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by dogma and guarded by tradition.

But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world, and there's incredible acts of kindness and bravery and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.

Dogs are great assets to candidates, and the feeling seems to be engendered that if a dog loves the candidate, he can't be all that bad.

The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.

Truth itself is something you live, not something you think.

No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to grow up and be married.