You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

The most boring thing in the world? Silence.

My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.

I believe people can move things with their minds.

As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.

I have really great, great parents, and they were very supportive of me.

We should all believe in something, and I believe it's time for another shot of tequila.

Yesterday is history Tomorrow's a mystery

If you put out 150 percent, then you can always expect 100 percent back. That's what I was always told as a kid, and It's worked for me so far!

The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.

The kingdom comes when Jesus becomes king of your life. But it has to be your life.

Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real.

We need a new global culture that finds the existence of millions of thirsty people thoroughly and immediately unacceptable.

She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

I got introduced to audiobooks because of having a baby

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.