Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear. Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

God’s purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year.

Become a parent. Lose your autonomy, but gain the wondrous superpower of The Magic Kiss that instantly dries tears and makes the pain of boo-boos disappear.

When we all part from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have to share is his own story.

My slurred speech isn’t from one or nine drinks too many, it’s from my father.

She laughs, and that's really all he wanted.

Sometimes we have to go to the darkness alone, before we can see the light.

If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.

History is littered with people who came up with great ideas and saw others profit from them. You need to make sure you don't join their ranks.

When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long for the good old days when people read serious novels.