I elbow my way through the mass of people to get to my locker because there's something immensely satisfying about the toughest part of my arm connecting with the softest part of everyone else.

The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.

If I can do things right, I don't see why everyone else can't.

I half-expect to check out, but I'm really there for it. It's not like at the dance, angry and forced. It's terrible in its gentleness and he's just wasting it on me.

I mean, you know how it is. You chase a bottle of sleeping pills with a bottle of Jack Daniel's and life's never the same, no matter how many times you try to tell people it was just an accident.

The more you go with the flow of life and surrender the outcome to God, and the less you seek constant clarity, the more you will find that fabulous things start to show up in your life.

Reading sparks writing.

It all began with a bucket of eggs.

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention.

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.

We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.

I take my responsibilities very seriously.

I look around and there are needs that people have. Places have needs. These times have needs, and I have the education and the ability to communicate with it and help to solve those needs.