In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.
I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself.
If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'
My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.
My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.
If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.
My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid.
I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.
In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.
I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.
