It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.

When I was a kid they didn't call it dyslexia. They called it you know, you were slow, or you were retarded, or whatever. What you can never change is the effect that the words 'dumb' and 'stupid' have on young people. I knew I wasn't stupid, and I knew I wasn't dumb. My mother told me that. If you read to me, I could tell you everything that you read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.

It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

I fear waking up one morning and finding out my life was all for nothing. We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. When you're kind to someone in trouble, you hope they remember and are kind to someone else and so on. Soon it will be like a wildfire.

It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.