You can love something without loving everything about it. You don't have to feel embarrassed about not being proud. That applies to hockey, but it also applies to friends.

The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.

Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.

Just because you don’t like peanut butter doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t like . . . peanuts.

What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices.

The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.

The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last happy moments before everything fell apart.

Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.

Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.

Winners have a tendency to be forgiven in this town.

She’s fifteen, above the age of consent, and he’s seventeen, but he’s still “the boy” in every conversation. She’s “the young woman”.Words are not small things.

Fall in love with all knowing manifestations of one. You may find those connections between you and all through yoga and meditation.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.

Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its slither, it is gloriously onomatopoetic.

One thing I have learned about Christians, having organized them for years - when they lose, they quit. And when they win they quit. We are just quitters.

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.

The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis.

I think civilian Americans support the military very much.