Her eyes filled. "He forgot my birthday, two weeks ago, " she said. "It was the first one he had ever forgotten, in nineteen of them." Nineteen! Nineteen from thirty-five leaves sixteen!

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

Crazy always feels right, but that doesn't mean it ain't wrong.

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

A large portion of the Earth's land area is taken up by old varsity jackets.

And then--a Day as huge As Yesterdays in pairs, Unrolled its horror in my face-- Until it blocked my eyes

The world has gone through tremendous change recently; both nationally andinternationally.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

I'm sayin', why spend mine when I can spend yours?

There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.