What is family anyway but people who are always supposed to be there for you? Family should be rock solid, the earth beneath your feet, wind beneath your wings, and all that.

Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.

Suffocation is a cruel way to go.

Afraid to die loveless. Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen. Do you think hell is fiery? I don't. I think hell is frozen.

Think of how far you've come, " Maggie said softly. "And then ask yourself how much farther you wish to go

I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind.

Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings.

I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do.

The biggest thing is having a son. I got attached to him. Seeing him periodically is hard. Watching him grow up on pictures and videos is hard.

God did not intend that we should be cowards, or delinquents, or fools, or sinners or weaklings. He created us in his own image and commanded us to be men.

We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.