For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.

For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being.

Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.

We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.

Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.

Sometimes just getting up and moving is victory enough.

As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.

I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.

The first time around as a mom, I held on really tight and I was so stressed.

I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.'

My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around.

I think that the Detroit auto industry is important to the United States. It's important for hundreds of thousands of Americans who have their jobs as a result.

For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Last I heard, I was being traded to Washington for Monica Lewinsky.

Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.