You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.

This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.

It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.

Don’t worry about what people think, because once it’s all over the people who love you will make you what they want you to be, and the people who don’t love you will, too.

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe

This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.

I made some friends for life, the way I usually make them. Any jackass can be pleasant company, but if people help you when you're at your worst, that's a friend.

It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.

These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.

Oh, I told Once, and I told you Twice, Stay here With me In my Paradise I need you I miss you More and more Each day

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

A cute outfit can really make your day. If I wear something I look good in, my mood just goes way up.

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.

The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.

I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures.

I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.