You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

You would think as you get older your mind would fill up with what they call the spiritual side of things, but mine just seems to get more and more practical, trying to get something settled.

For what was living with a man if it wasn't living inside his insanity?

There is absolutely no reward on earth for being a Christian. You get it only on payday in Heaven, not while you are still working for Jesus on earth.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.

When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."

You only get out of it what you put into it. If you are a sheep in this world, you're not going to get much out of it.

Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.

I don't know what it means to be a star because I don't really look at myself like a star. I look at myself as a regular person, just like everybody else. I just love what I do.

The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.

Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away.

But now behold, In the quick forge and working-house of thought, How London doth pour out her citizens!