His closeness makes my heart beat faster, my skin tingle, my body want things it doesn't even know.

Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down.

Failure is not an option.

Turn around? No. Keep going, it's the only way to make sure I don't end up going back and forth.

It’s not really outstanding when you’re standing outOutcry is the only outburst, if you can’t shout

Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.

Do not lose yourself in the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. Do not get caught in your anger, worries, or fears. Come back to the present moment, and touch life deeply. This is mindfulness.

Our sons who so easily recognize our errors and rightly denounce them will have to confess their own later on and they may be as bad as ours perhaps worse.

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity would sit down and eat a steak with Keith Olbermann and Barack Obama before they would dine on tofu and asparagus with me!

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

It is not because there is God that devotion has come; because there is devotion, there is God.

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.