Loving someone unconditionally is the ultimate joy

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

And you've got a boy right there who looks at you like he would drink your bathwater if you'd ask him!

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

Be real. That's part of being present.

God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.