Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.

Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it - it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony.

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications

I ran outta tears of sadness when I was 20 & all I got left is tears of joy.

Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.

Any time somebody is into your band that's a good thing. And if they're in a really cool, really popular band, that's a better thing.

I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.

Good code is its own best documentation.

It was the Lord's love and my recognition of His presence in my life that made me realize how important it was to give Him the glory and be there for Him.

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.