The experience may have been costly, but it was also priceless.

Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.

Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who become a burden to their children and society.

The Democrats in particular are do-nothing guys.

A heart full of grace is gift of gladness.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

Stopping an army, isn't that something you try 300 times before you do it?

When I started to internalize fat positivity and believe it, my response was the same one I had when I started to understand the scope of gender inequality: deep indignation.

ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

I'm less comfortable in a gregarious social situation, and you can be introverted and still share everything. It just means that you're guarded.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

My name's Todd but I changed it in the first grade because there was another kid named Todd and I didn't understand that that was possible.