When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.

The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them

The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to feel, and learn, that neither experienced nor evinced the sentiments of sober disenchanted maturity.

Perceiving myself in a blunder, I attempted to correct it. I might have seen there was too great a disparity between the ages of the parties to make it likely that they were man and wife. One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls: that dream is reserved for the solace of our declining years. The other did not look seventeen.

It's about showing the kids from your city that you are worth believing in. It's about being the man your family prayed you'd be.

My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that's my father.

When I was in junior high, I went to a really hippy dippy Quaker school where we called our teachers by their first names and stuff.

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

The traditional teaching of the church has proven to be the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.

I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond those misty hills that bound the golden road.

but youth yearned to youth.