Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

You know what? I don’t care about everyone. I never even cared about me. I cared about you.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.

There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be from right to far right.

One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.

Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.

I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.

And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.

It's too easy to find people who've failed and are embittered. The best thing you can do is hang around people who've succeeded and are happy doing what you want to do. Learn from them.

I think I'm the only player who looks at each and every center and says to myself, 'That's barbecued chicken down there.'