Poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere.

As long as you invite faith, courage, and perseverance to become your daily companions, every test would inevitably mature into a testimony in your life.

He understood it then. The potential, the utter, unbelievable freedom to be whoever existed underneath his skin.

it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or energetic culture.

Delightful as teenage witch-in-training Sabrina.

Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids.

The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.

Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.

Almost all women have hearts full of pity.