Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.

If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.

Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year, in peace or in war.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Even when we are confused about someone’s gender, and don’t have a greater awareness of what it means to be trans, we have a choice to respond with kindness rather than cruelty.

Remember to take time for God—it is life’s only lasting investment.

I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

Learn to laugh at your problems, cause everybody else does.

By the time we complete the care for the wounded soldiers, $6 trillion, that's $50,000 per American household.

The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.

You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.

It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.