A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to end the war, no one cared about the consequences

Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

(Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?)

People would cheer throw confetti and then go about breaking the resolutions they had made only moments before.

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

It's called loitering, which is like littering with human beings as the trash.

In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.

You are person with a goal

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

[My kids] complained about Secret Service as they became teenagers, and Secret Service has done the very best job they could accommodating them, so it hasn't restricted any of their activities.

Our obedience to God’s commandments comes as a natural outgrowth of our endless love and gratitude for the goodness of God.

We also have to be honest about the fact that not everyone who seeks to join our country will be able to successfully assimilate. Sometimes it's just not going to work out.

Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.

I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

Nobody has a right now to say that the Hindus are not liberal to a fault.