When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

A woman should never have a need to fear the man who holds her in his arms

When you pray, you are speaking to yourself. When you take action, you are speaking to God.

Convincing someone to believe something that was inherently unbelievable often meant getting that person to make a quick and easy comparison to something they already knew.

If silver is used and gold is hoarded than how can gold be of higher monetary value.

The networks at their worst (were) at once greedy and timid.

When family relations are no longer harmonious we have filial children and devoted parents.

You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.

When I do music I don't do it with a purpose in mind. I just feel like it's a little bit contrived if you try to do something like that. It's got to come organically.

A value strategy is of little use to the impatient investor since it usually takes time to pay off.

If we are not deliberately thinking about our culture and our context, we will be conformed to it without ever knowing.