I do take enormous interest in what's going on. I try to see whatever I can, whenever I can.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.

Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.

The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.

If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.

Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.

Everybody by your side ain't on your side

Don't be afraid to lose him, because if a man truly loves you, he's not going anywhere

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.

When the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

The motorcycle’s headlights cut through the darkness. Ahead the road was nothing but a black hole. She roared toward it.

How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there?

Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.

Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.

Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks

I've had to work for everything I have, and I'm not going to stop. The minute I feel I've made it, I'm done.

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.