Steven, I know I phrased that as a question, but it was really a command. Yes, but mine is…ummm…private. Private, Steven? Yes, Miss Palma. PRIVATE Steven? Again with the capital letters?

I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge.

You look like a handsome young man…although you might want to zip your fly. Mom! What? Should I have not told you and left it for everyone else to notice at the dance?

Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change

Chicks dig a dude who’s sporting the latest eggplant turtleneck styles.

But nobody ever tells you in advance when you should concentrate on the good times-that's why you're supposed to do it every day.

If you promise you will get better instead of dying, I promise I will, too.

It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that’s a weird image.

There are really no guidelines whatsoever, because this is the kind of thing that only happens to ME.

And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.

Some kids do drugs. Some kids light stuff on fire. Me, I eat oats.

Many young people are building their lives on the rock of materialism. I find across the country a deep economic discontent among people in every walk of life.

God welcomes our prayers. He is much more concerned about our hearts than our eloquence.

In order to get to heaven, Jesus said that you must be converted. I didn’t say it—Jesus said it!

When I remember my mother, it makes me really sad. But, when I remember my father, it makes me smile.

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.

All those songs are totally timeless. They'll always stand up because they came from a real place. They weren't crafted songs. They were written from the heart.

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

I saw an interview with Jay-Z where he said he didn't write down any of his lyrics, so I tried that.

You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.