That hate is easy, but sometimes love is easy too.

Hate is... It's too easy. Love. Love takes courage.

It must be comforting, to have a faith like that. To believe so concretely that there’s someone—something— out there watching guard, keeping us safe, testing us only with what we can handle.

I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.

I'm not saying he was, like, crying tears of man pain over the phone, but he sounded upset.

Sketchy black van? Weird stalking of my house? What are you going to do next, offer me some candy?

No problem. Just drop it back off before you go, " he says, procuring a brass key. "And if he puts on Bowie's early stuff and starts sweet-talking, dammit, you run. You run as fast as you can.

We should go swimming, " Anna says, out of the blue.

If you really want things to change, you can make them change no matter where you are.

He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.

These songs tell me I'm not alone. If you look at it that way, music...music can see you through anything.

Our compassion, spirituality, and appreciation of beauty provide us with the capacity to love.

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.

Never settle for anything less than your best.

Who paies the Physitian, does the cure.

Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.

Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

Fashion could be more relevant. It needs to be understood rather than just consumed.