With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems.

You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.

You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content.

No one is going to fire me now. If and when I leave, I'll be the one to make the decision

One-man regimes belong to old eras

Fools build houses and wise men buy them.

Don't." Clary raised a warning hand. "I'm not really in the mood right now." "That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me," Jace mused.

And so there are so many good things going on all across Iraq and unfortunately that's not what the American people see on TV or they don't read a lot about it in the newspapers.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

The one who chooses to love will find appropriate ways to express that decision everyday.

The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind.

You have to remember everything you've created. But then comes a moment when it's all automatic pilot, where it all comes together and you don't have to think about it any more.

I would literally never think about melody. I never thought people listened to melody because I listen to words.

The pastors and ministry leaders came away energized to have voter registration drives at their churches and motivated to encourage their congregations to "vote their values."