Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.

Music is nectar for the soul.

Luck came to those who left a space for it.

Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration.

A bad mood is like bad breath. Both are wrong to inflict onto others

A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent.

A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

God, help me remember that when I admit and accept the truth, I'll be given the power and guidance to change.

I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.