To realize the importance the imagination could have in friendship, to understand its immense power for bringing us together in a way.

Being shameless in thinking, then talking, about male friendship because it is important. Make room for friendship in your life. Make a federal case out of it.

Our society seems to say that a real man needs and wants nobody.

After all, what is ''a man'' nowadays? Somebody who stands alone, independent of all ties.

Past and future were out of her hands. One was finished and couldn't be undone. The other was beyond imagining.

It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.

If I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it.

Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?

The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness.

Children possess a remarkable amount of passion. They throw themselves completely, heart and soul, into everything.

We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We’re more visual people so what we see is basically what we believe which is not necessarily true.

To live without loving is not really to live.

[On her thinness:] It's not what you'd call a figure, is it?