Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?

Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.

I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much.

It'd be funny if one of them was called Gavin. Funny but irrelevant.

I have concluded that the more we seek the Lord, with a passion for His worthiness, the more we are gripped with our neediness. Adoration cultivates desperation.

To feel the joy too much:let us trust too much, let us love too much, let us hope too muchand let us belong too much.

They, who know no evil, will suspect none.

I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

I always say whoever can figure out how to make ice cream healthy will be a gazillionaire.

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

People who are on a spiritual quest don't think, they simply want results.