Hell freezing over? I don't know. But the devil's definitely wearing a sweater.

While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown.

To be a man, a boy must see a man

Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.

Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.

Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me.

Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

Art is a positive "FORCE" that bring beings together for the common good. Only the people who had lost a piece of themselves can create the unimaginary.

Those who constantly work on their positive desires, know nothing about wishing.

We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity speak to Him frankly and plainly and implore His assistance in our affairs.

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.

The real meditation is how you live your life.

Take my love, take my land. Take me where I cannot stand I don't care, I'm still free You can't take the sky from me.

I am sure that you will never end war with wars.

Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.

A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks