If Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were.

Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.

I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.

Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

The trouble with real life is, there's no reset button.

In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.

When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.

Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new.

A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.

What did Jesus Christ say to the Teamsters? 'Do nothing till I get back.

Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere then evaporated, leaving only memory.

The rain keeps starting and stopping like an anxious lover who doesn’t know if he should spend the night.

I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me to get them through some cataclysmic changes.

…all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.

What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - its relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.

Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.

Recycling isn't going to save the world, but being conscious of it and your surroundings can.

Life is strong stuff, some of us can bear more of it than others.

Whatever you are waiting for-peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of Simple Abundance-it will surely come, but only when you are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

Simply look at whatever happens and know that you are beyond it.