Never have a long conversation with anyone who says "between you and I.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

To win peace, fight with love not with violence.

If I am too busy to read The Bible ... am I too busy?

If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.

Baltimore is a great place.

America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.

Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.

I'm sorry. It's my fault. How do I make it right?

I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.

I shopped with G-Dragon a long time ago but now that we live together, I can't buy clothes with him.

I have a suit in my closet with the pocket cut out. It's a reminder to me that I won't be taking anything with me. The last suit I wear won't need any pockets.