I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

Face it, Nat, this is one tiger who will never be jumping through your flaming hoop--

Stop making a relationship about what you get and start making it about what you give, for what you give is what you'll get in return.

My faith has wavered but has saved me.

You can't control the things that happen to you, but you can control the way you feel about them.

It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 9/11, whether it was drinking or whatever.

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.

Count your blessings. Be grateful-- you're alive

It's hard to change adults, and it's hard to change it from a political position or a perceived political position.

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself. So protect your families! See in them your country’s greatest treasure and nourish them always by prayer and the grace of the sacraments.

The Central Bank should take into account other things as well: the stability of the bank system in the country, the increase or decrease of money supply in the economy, its influence on inflation.