Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.

The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.

If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.

The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken.

Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.

Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton.

Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.

Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.

The Holy Spirit connecting with your spirit will begin to induce and stimulate your spirit to reveal to you all that the Lord has put in you

If there are any tears shed in heaven, they will be over the fact that we prayed so little.

God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something.

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

That's my main thing: I want to be on the level those guys [Derrick Rose,Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant] are on.

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

There are the saints of every day, the 'hidden' saints, a sort of 'middle class of holiness'... to which we can all belong.

You miss every shot you don't take.

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.