Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

My doctor told me that I really should lose some weight. "You're mildly obese," he said. And I thought, "Well, who couldn't afford to lose 20 or 30 pounds?" He said, "Well, a person in your category." I said, "What is that category, doctor?" He said, "Well, you're what I call upwardly middle aged." And I said, "I forgive you for everything."

Hope is born again in the faces of children.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.