The goal of a true family is not that their children follow in their footsteps, but that their children surpass them in all ways.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.

Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.

A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.

Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

It's the family you choose that counts.

Yo Mama’s so ugly, when she joined an ugly contest, they said, “Sorry, no professionals.

My heart felt withered, a neglected fruit that would never again sweeten, now that my love was dead.

Good fiction makes the truth believable.

We will drain the swamp in Washington, D.C., and replace it with a new government, of, and by, and for the people.

I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.

I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

It's important to be alive in those moment, especially when you're doing something you love to do.

I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.

The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.