We have earned our peace. It is, by now, more precious than honor, or even pity.

Where is it written that one should only care about big things?

What the world really needs is courageous parenting from mothers and fathers who are not afraid to speak up and take a stand.

It's like having explosives on board 24/7, the way I feel. I can't believe when I touch things they don't blow to bits. I can't believe I was so way off.I thought, I don't know, I thought wrong.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That's much better than watching television, much better. They won't get very much out of television except some bad thoughts.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.

I can't live off of yesterday - that's in the past.

I was all of these women. I've been a young mom; I've been a divorcée; I've been a single mom. I've been the working mom versus the nonworking mom.