Teachers need to sit with their journal and write in the voice of that teenager. Write and remember. That’s who we teach!

What power--what importance--lies in the blank lines of an open notebook. Go and fill yours. Then share.

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

Rats. Rats, mice, and rodents.

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

I do kind of transcend the song and give it a different meaning.

Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.

Global warming, climate change, it's a total.

Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.'