I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Go and venture! You should not give up after failures because this gift does not belong only to you

Sometimes, things just aren't meant to be. Sometimes, no matter how bad you want it, you got to let it go. True.. Letting go.

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

I smile all the time, even when I'm in a bad mood. I always try to keep a smile on my face.

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.

I don't watch much ESPN. Unless they have soccer on.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

It took me getting to my 50s before I could say "Whatever!" about other people's criticism, especially when it's not true.

We must trust God, not only WHEN we do not understand, but BECAUSE we do not understand.