Love meant hope. Without love, life held no promise.

Was it too much to ask that she find someone who wanted the same things in life as she did--a home, someone to lean on when the not-so-perfect times came crashing down?

Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society.

It is better to be a reader than richer.

My biggest fear is the ocean. It's a great big, powerful sea toilet.

I have a '68 Mustang, which is my baby. I've had her for about six years, which is kind of a miracle, considering how many times she's been stolen.

We had a national tragedy this week, and the President of the United States and Sarah Palin both made speeches on the same day. Obama came out against lunatics with guns, she gave the rebuttal.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get back to creating jobs and helping more Americans find an honest day's work.

I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.