The world is a better place when you smile.

Daddy loved his son. Daddy believed his son walked on water. Daddy, Mike had long ago decided, was an idiot.

Teaching is the most powerful force that changes our world one student at a time.

Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were waving or drowning.

Flashlights would have been nice. Next adventure, Coralee was going to bring a flashlight.

I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.

The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.

College kids, don't be taking examples from me.

Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.

Being a leader, it's the art of trying to find the balance, the right times with each individual and what they need at that moment. It requires looking outward as opposed to looking inside.

I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.

On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.