If there’s one thing I learned in Alanon, it’s that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.

All the men I know add that “hands that prepared it” line. They must know it’s right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.

The choice was whether to be sad and foolish or sad and reasonable.

Neva ought to smile more. It breaks her anxiety into tiny pieces of joy you want to gather up and hand back to her in your palms, as if to say, “See what you can make when you loose the reins.

I’m serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope.

I allowed myself a microscopic view into his ice-colored eyes. It was like viewing one of those photographs of the Arctic region – very foreign, exotic, clearly a place you’ve never dreamed of going.

I’ve never known a tranquil atheist. Don’t they always look like they just sat on a tack?

I know many a strong man undone by marriage.

My life belongs only to me.I let go of all the expectationsthat others have of me.My life doesn’t belongto anybody, except to meand to Life itself.

Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it.

It doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts

I worked in cable news for a long time, but I'm not a pundit. I'm just not. I'm grateful to people that are, but I was really miserable trying to do that. I just wanted to be myself.

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.