I don’t enjoy surprises that compel me to renegotiate my relationship with the past.

We have to live within the framework of our limitations and the mistakes we make. Argue with Destiny, but never try to wrestle it into submission. If you do, you’ll end up losing.

Stop trying to be a magician. The past won’t come back. It likes its safety in memory.

I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. It’s a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.

I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort, ' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.

A human life is a schooling for eternity.

I enjoy growth; I enjoy having a lot of different experiences. And I don't think I am the kind of guy who'd like to do the same thing every day for 40 years.

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.

It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.

There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.