Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.

he(Quinn)put his hand out to his friend. “I’ll lay my life down for you.With or Without that piece of paper

Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it.

Life. In all it's mundane majesty.

...love people when they least expect it and least deserve it. That is the kind of love Jesus shows to us.

He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her.

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.

[Latin] allows you to adore words, take them apart and find out where they came from.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye.

I would not cross the street to make a Baptist, but I would go round the world to make a Christian.

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

Evil, why do you infest the purest thoughts with hatred?