Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.

Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.

People ask me all the time, "Where do your ideas come from?" So, to clear up this question...I keep my ideas inside the mind of a tiny man who is tied up in my closet!

There’s plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well.

(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes but by blood and iron.

I'm able to reach a wider audience, an older audience. I can gladly say that I'm definitely not a bubblegum princess anymore.

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.

For the obvious reasons, furthering my children's education and keeping my family healthy and thriving is my highest mission.

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.

You can't be a poet certainly of my generation and not have deep in your animal brain the comment of William Carlos Williams, no ideas except in things.

To love the world is to be afflicted.