Staring down hard truth takes guts.

When you can carry five full dinner platters on your left arm, you should be able to vote, even if you're not eighteen.

Will we have bodyguards?" "We're not quite set up for that. But with all these mothers, you don't need them.

I'll tell you something about tough things. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find the way through. On the Food Network they have these shows where cooks have to put a meal together with all these weird ingredients. That's a lot like my life-dealing with things you wouldn't think ever go together. But a good cook can make the best meal out of the craziest combinations.

Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down.

The problem with the heart is how it can have so many opposite feelings coursing through it all at the same time. It's really an inconsistent thing- appreciating something one minute and hating it the next.

If she's really psychic," Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, "why does she need a doorbell?