I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of . . . we are afraid of what we think.

We are only flesh and blood. We are only chemicals mixing and circuits firing, sometimes in disarray. We are, every last one of us, plagued by useless want.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise.

I'm still living it now, every day, living it out in my mind - following the ups and downs, walking the pathways, reliving the moments of our Moonlight World... It's a day that never dies.

Don't cheer me, just hear me Out 'cause I got the clout-shout (Ho!) Before I turn the party out

I grew up in a house where there were no taboos, so it came originally from a pretty innocent place, where I was shocked at the things that shocked people.

God will take you through hell, just to get you to heaven.

Whoever puts his confidence in men or in any creature is very foolish.

Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.