This is why it is good to remember: if you want to get high, don’t drink whiskey; read Shakespeare, Tennyson, Keats, Neruda, Hopkins, Millay, Whitman, aloud and let your body sing.

I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

There's no such thing as perfect people. There's no such thing as a perfect life. So come as you are, broken and scarred. Lift up your heart and be amazed and be changed by a perfect God.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

When you're scared, when you close your eyes ... just know there is nothing left to fear!

Every person has something meaningful to say in the conversation of life.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

She glared at him. 'I'm not weird like that. I'm good weird. I'm cool weird.' 'Yes,' he said doubtfully. 'Yes, you are.

If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and then thought about the children after the fact.

I never try and sound like Sabbath.

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

Love teaches you to care for others. It also gives you your best chance to grow up.

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

If we spoke less and sang songs of faith more, the world would be more Heavenly.