A writer needs a partner who can act as fuel to his artistic mind, yet has the great ability to sober him up and help him be in sync with the non-artistic part of his soul.

A grandmother’s love is selfless all the way to the bones.

...the depth or humaneness of our love depends on the wideness of our souls.

Evil is something you need to fight until it ceases trying to control you.

...Unsettling emotions are capable of messing up the most beautiful minds in this world.

A man has a hard time feeling fulfilled when he lives a life that does not serve a purpose that is more than himself.

The basis of love that most people share is the intimacy they developed with their partners, the intensity of their attraction, or the similarity of their thought patterns.

What is the purpose of wealth if it cannot serve an ideal that enhances humanity and betters the lives of the people, even if that means those we have never met before in our lives?

A good relationship with our children is the ultimate comfort we have while dying.

We still need to give our best to life even if we do not understand the purpose of our existence on earth.

With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.

I have to admit, insanity is so much fun.

Did you ever have one of those nights when you didn't want to go out but your hair looked too good to stay home?

Skill is fine and genius is splendid but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.

You don't really prepare for a kissing scene.

The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high.

I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.

Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)

Always give a hundred percent, and you'll never have to second-guess yourself.

Is she not passing fair?