Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age.

I want to bring back the pride and tradition long associated with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and more importantly, with the people of Pittsburgh.

Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

We counted 19 missiles that landed in a small area of Baghdad.

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

Timberland is an all-American brand focused on work, utility and the outdoors, that managed to find a place in the fashion world as well

Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.