Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.

If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many lessons in illness that can never be learned in health.

What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.

God has a lot of things to teach us in Heaven, things we didn't learn in this life.

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.

I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.

Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.

Being a great fighter is having a perfect balance of having that toughness, skill, as well as that mental capability to be able to out-think you opponent.