If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

Our daily conversation when we meet each other, whether it be in the office or on the campus or in the shop, should be concerned with the things of God.

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.

If the game of life ended tonight, would you be a winner?

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

I agonize over things like this - the order of things, section titles, all this architectural sort of stuff. Takes me years to figure out.

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.