To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. It means being righteous from the very depth of our soul, not only in our actions but, more importantly, in our thoughts and in our hearts.

The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.

We do not choose the vessel we're given, Iola Anne, but we choose what we pour out and what we keep inside," she say.

My mama used to say if you frown on the outside long enough, eventually you'll grow a frown on the inside, too.

It feels like people will poke a spear in anyplace they can draw blood these days. It wasn't that way when I was growing up. Even in politics, people had some…" I search for the word, and the best thing I can come up with is "decency.

The truths you establish early stay with you. They're written in the journal of who you are—the one you carry around in your pocket like an operating manual for life.

I shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it. I

Don't let the bad get in you. Don't open the door to it, no matter how much it comes knockin' or how sweet it sounds askin'.

She'd noticed immediately that I understood the lure of a good story. Sometimes a world that doesn't exist is the only escape from the one that does.

don't want everything that's going on to be a…distraction for you two. I don't want you to

May comments, "We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things." Are

The spirit of excellence exorcises the demon of mediocrity.