But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

I am possessed by love and have no options.

Dwell positive thoughts!

The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.

If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

It's important to learn from your mistakes, but it is BETTER to learn from other people's mistakes, and it is BEST to learn from other people's successes. It accelerates your own success.

Funerals...are for the living.

I call it the Etch A Sketch life. Every few years, you should shake that thing up.

You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.

I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.