The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

Whenever I'm broadcasting, I like it. When I'm broadcasting I can't wait to hear what I say.

Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.

They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.

I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

We are spectators to violence, and therefore are, how well we don't know and make sure we don't know the difference of real violence to that of simulation.

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.

Time well spent is an investment of the present for a practical and abundant future.

The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love

I believe that theology is facing the abyss.I must face the abyss, the abyss of existence, the abyss of mystery. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)

Making Disciples through the Transforming Power of Jesus Christ in the Spirit of Excellence!

Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.

The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.

People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.

I'm super-fortunate to have any fans still.

He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.

These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind.