As the psychiatrist said to the cannibal at the end of a session: "Your problem is easy you're just fed up with people."

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames.

I am mildly addicted to Mucinex-D. I feel like I should just come clean about that.

I had the privilege of chairing Judge Samuel Alito confirmation hearing in 1990. And at that time, he had practiced law for 14 years, but only represented one client, the United States government.

John Wayne was never shy about that fervor, but because he was never overly zealous about his politics, and of course his status as a movie, he was embraced by both the right and the left.

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.

The pain of hope dying is worse than his fists and boots.

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.