Sometimes the best thing that can happen to a person is to have a puppy lick your face.

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope.

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

You've got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.

A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance.

Staring down hard truth takes guts.

Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.

Values come to you by what you hear.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.

I have really been blessed in my career with some wonderful songwriters and in turn, songs.

There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a pencilling

my present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months.

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

I've often talked about that, and I've been asked that a couple of times and my feeling are that if you have a good show, a bad host will not even hurt the show.