Your faith shapes the kind of person that you are.

Your character is slowly built and quickly eroded. You're definitely influenced whatever you are immersed in and whatever you're around and what you're a part of.

I try not to have expectations because they can tend to tear you apart. I expect to work as hard as I can possibly work and I expect to give every ounce of a hundred percent.

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.

My fans freak out and think I'm never going to race again. And I don't want them to do that because I want them to be there to pull for me in the truck series next year.

Really, we don't relate our Atlanta setup to here. I feel like the shock [absorber] package will be different and the springs will certainly be different than Atlanta.

I'm not comfortable telling my kids how they should be or how they should think or how they should act or anything else.

We are going to look at the results at the end of the semester to determine the future of the program. I am really eager to see what the scores look like on the end of the semester report cards.

I guess I'd rather be lucky than good.

Kids pick up and absorb a lot more than you think they do. I try to do what I think is right, and I try to lead by example.

My task as a language arts teacher is to provide texts that are not so difficult that my students shut down in frustration and not so easy that my students don't push their thinking.

Quit lying to yourself and accept your power and beauty. Liberate yourself from the slow-death you call life.

I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.

Resist the Devil and he will flee from you.

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever

All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.

The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.