Feelings change fast when you're a teenager.

You'll never regret eating blueberries or working up a sweat.

It's faith that really takes the courage, the belief in things unseen.

Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about.

Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.

Work is a slice of your life. It's not the entire pizza.

The ideal structure for a family is one that remains so.

our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.

Being wanted is the tender heel of everything human.

Here is how it is for women. We become our schedules. That starts to feel good. Then it starts to feel necessary. Then it starts to feel like everything.

God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.

There can be no excellence without insight.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

I have a hunch the most important reason we're going to space is not known now.

True generosity means accepting ingratitude.

I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.

Kate Middleton's a pretty girl who sounds nice.

I feel one of the most significant honors a player can have in his sport is to have his number retired. Certainly for me to have that at Tennessee, it's with great pride.

The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future.

A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.