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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Never, never, never give up.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.

I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.

I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing.

We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.