A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.

I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died.

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

I am made of beauty. I notice beauty all around me every day. I am beautifully blessed!

If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.

To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.

am i insane" asked alice"yes, but all the best people are" replied her father

What humbugs we are who pretend to live for Beauty and never see the Dawn!

You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.

A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.

I vowed I wouldn't get married until someone gave me one good reason to. No one ever did - but I got married anyway.

It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast.

Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.