I had forgotten what sleep is like - a kingdom all its own.

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

Artists have no choice but to express their lives.

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.

I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form.

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

I have no home but me.

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

We need to START buying our KIDS more ($00.50) BOOKS and less ($50.00) Video-Games

Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.

If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.

It's a constant battle between what your heart tells you, and what your brain tells you.

Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.

I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.

I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.

Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.

Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?

But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics.