I don't write so that people will understand me, I write because I know they don't. And, I can't help feeling like I should at least give them the illusion that they do.

Spending all your energy on one opinion is like confining yourself to living in a box, and most people in a box aren't living.

Never underestimate the distance that one simple act of kindness can carry you.

If you are not in some way living your life like a Dr. Suess rhyme, than you may in fact be living it wrong.

In the end, age in numbers is no more than an empty bag. The only way to truly tell a person's years is by examing the contents they have filled it with.

[Rape is] nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.

Jesus didn't die on the cross so we can do something epic. He died so we can have a relationship with an epic God who moves in epic ways!

All I knew about shot putting was that my [older] brother could do 44 feet. I decided I wanted to beat him. . . . So I got a shot and went to work and made up my mind to do 45 feet.

For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.

Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.

Jennifer Aniston is a genius.

We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

I know it's bad to generalize, but when you think about billionaires, you just think this guy is going to walk into a room and just demand things to be a certain way.