A view of heaven from a seat in hell.

The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.

My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness.

Avoiding risk is not much of a goal...whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challenge.

This life is full of trials and tribulations, so you have to capture humor whenever and wherever you can find it.

We don’t have to tell secrets. We don’t have to talk at all. We could just, you know, kiss . . . and stuff.

Pent up anger brews into hate, which subsequently becomes a juicy revenge.

It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.

A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men.

Truth is a rough honest helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

Masculine people, by their nature, tend to want to make everything into a journey with a goal.

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

From dwarf tossing to drug taking: The legislator has no place in voluntary exchanges between consenting adults, as dodgy and as dangerous as these might be.

The world of dew is the world of dew. And yet, and yet--

What shall we do about the Abortion Bill?" A: "Pay it!