You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.

...What you are is a force--a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream...You are life

the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself

when the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need

I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure.

Reputation became the pirates' sharpest sword.

I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Her smile is like summer moonlight-beautiful and magical, with a fire that could melt the night.

It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all

Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God.

I played at Georgia, I coached at Alabama. I know how to beat both of them.

Many people consider me an old friend.