Resounding…with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable.

They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.

Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.

Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.

Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.

Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.

Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.

An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.

Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person's character.

The town is man's world but this (country life) is of God.

The driver knows how much the ox can carry and keeps the ox from being overloaded. You know your way and your state of mind. Do not carry too much.

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail.

All our good works and good intentions can't solve our sin problem.

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.

For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published.

Some women run with wolves, but the majority would be much happier with your basic lap dog.

Growing up as a little kid, I wasn't always this size. I got picked on a lot.