...if you are one tardy away from missing out on a big competition, you should probably make your coffee at home.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

People do the damndest things when they’re in love.

God's grace is all we need.

I don't want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.

But I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe that’s what mothers did.

How much I love my mom cannot be measured in words, it's just too much and too hard to describe.

Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.

Some people naturally have a sense of empathy and an understanding of how to bring their followers to do things. They become great politicians.

My son has autism, and I founded the government relations department at Autism Speaks.

A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience.

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.