Don't be so hard on yourself....that's what a loofah's for

The only way I’d ever die of a broken heart, is if I slammed into something really hard

Loving someone is sticking a pin through a voodoo doll and not hitting any vital organs

Manners without sincerity, is called polite society

Anyone can spin a victory, it's a total loss that demands creativity

If life is a bowl of cherries, what's inside of it?

Patience is learning to take a deep breath while you’re exhaling

If you see the light at the end of the tunnel, you’re lookingthrough binoculars the wrongway

Y'know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations, like sitting on frozen peas after a vasectomy

An alibi is one alliterative consonant short of being a magic carpet

Target your random acts of kindness, to keep a tally of who owes what

Happiness is a journey that starts with you. If you can’t find it within you, it will be logically impossible for you to make others around you happy.

Patriotism is racism for the modern era.

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.

faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.