I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams

I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.

It's so weird how that can be, how you could have a night that's the worst in your life, but to everybody else it's just an ordinary night.

its better to know some question than all answers -James Thurber

One of the reasons I grew my hair long last year was that I like how my bangs cover my eyes: it helps me block out the things I don't want to see."-August thinking

So I just went over and sat with him. Not a biggie. I wish people would stop trying to turn it into something more. He's just a kid. The weirdest-looking kid I've ever seen, yes. But just a kid.

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Boxers are role models for a lot of young people. The sporting aspects should always be more important than business aspects.

I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.

God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

I've been married for 49 years. Where have I failed?

The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as people - our characters or souls - can be shaped or changed by outside influences.

I've gotten more buff.

Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.