Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.

If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.

You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.

The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.

When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.

Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He's wrathful, but at other times, He's incredibly compassionate. He's not a one-dimensional figure at all.

I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.

Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

I’m always in awe of people who are artists in their fields – people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they’ve created value in the world.

The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.

There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.

As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.