I can't say I have any confidence in confidence. I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough.

That was his favorite thing about books—they took you off to other people’s lives an’ places, but you could still set in your own chair by th’oil heater, warm as a mouse in a churn.

Maybe it's because he never had any control over what was happening to him as a boy. Being late was somehow a way of taking charge.

Once you backslide, strife will enter your life

People aspire, learn, and grow when they are ready to commit to the process.

It doesn't matter if most people refuse to understand nor support my efforts, not at all, it doesn't at all matter. What matters is, I am pioneering a revolution.

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.

It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children.

Bridget did the only thing she could do in this situation that wouldn't end with her doing a life stint in prison. She flipped the woman off. With both hands.

A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone's eyes show him that he is beautiful.

Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?

Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.