Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.

Some general advice about writing:WRITE MORE, DO OTHER STUFF LESS.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Socialism with a human face.

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

The Davis-Oliver bill will enhance cooperation with state and local authorities to ensure that criminal immigrants and terrorists are swiftly, really swiftly, identified and removed.

A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

I remember Bob Dylan saying in an interview that at a certain point he'd had to learn to do consciously what he'd previously done unconsciously or automatically. That resonates.

My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.