Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.

All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.

Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does.

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.

My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.

Love, kindness, compassion and forgiveness are divine.

In times of solitude, we are still to hear the voice of God.

We don’t live in a free market society… markets are controlled by the major players who influence legislation to perpetuate their control...

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.

Everyone of us should emulate him. We can all learn from Paul Scholes.

There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.

Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.