Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about.""Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.

How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.

One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector's Dream.

Always live your life with your biography in mind, " Dad was fond of saying."Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life

The trouble with insanity is it can flare up at the most inconvenient moments.

It takes a year to be collectively known as "intelligent" but it takes a lifetime to be distinguished as "wise

I think my life has everything, you know; it has comedy, has drama, has action.

For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

Problems are messages.