“I'd rather marry lump of steaming horseshit than you." Lucy jutted her chin out."Smells better too.”

“If chicken is sex then this is the best orgasm ever.”

“You know more about your child than I can ever hope to know, what advice can you give me to make a better teacher for her?”

“If you choose to live only in the world as you find it, you surrender too much.”

“You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.”

“We are not optimists because we can predict a bright and beautiful future, but we're not pessimists either, because the future is unknown and unknowable. We are, rather, active participants in possibility, willing workers in the fields of what could be, but is not yet. We are compelled by love- love of children and youth, love of a world in need of repair- and powered by hope. ”

“You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.”