I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player.

every day a million miracles begin at sunrise!

She’s a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

The more I grew as a human being, the better I became at my craft.

early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!

a full moon is a flashlight so everyone can see your drama!

Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him.

The sweet pleasure of your own joy and success is a cultivation of both the heart and mind.

Life is for happiness and we feel it with appreciation and kindness.

Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water problem, you solve the food problem.

If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.

No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.

If evil is contagious, so is good:therefore, we must allow good to abound in us, more and more;let us be infected by goodness, and let us spread the good contagion.