There are times when looking on the bright side takes a lot ot work. I'm taking a break from it tonight. I'll be back at it tomorrow.

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.

I will always fight for a woman's right to choose and the right to privacy. Reproductive issues are medical related issues and they should be kept private between a woman and her doctor.

Everyone, both big and small, can pull their weight, and ensure that the hopes and dreams of every child become realities.

If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it”

As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children.

We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations.

The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.

Health insurance needs to be affordable and available for everyone, not just the wealthy. I will always fight to improve the access, level of care, and affordability of health care.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

Secure tomorrow today by sowing good seeds today and by watering them with faith and love to others.

Time is your most valuable currency!

Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.

He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.

There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.

Appearance can always be changed, but the talent stays the same.

Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.