Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Let’s not call cancer patients as patients, they are cancer fighters. They are brave hearts.

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

Anyone can make a living, but it takes an extraordinary person to make a living while creating a strong positive impact.

When you care more about what others think of you than what God knows about you, you've lost perspective on what really matters.

It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.

No feeling you get from any exterior stimulation or source is anything like the total bliss of communion within.

I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.

He simply contemplated human realities from a divine perspective.

I shall gain glory or die.

Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas.