I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing the laundry)-the results can be amazing!

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

If only I could throw away the urge to trace my patterns in your heart, I could really see you.

I don't think we came from monkeys. I think that's ridiculous. I haven't seen a half-monkey, half-person yet.

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part of the orchestra, and installation sound, and speakers.

I think the reason why I never wanted to do a retrospective is because I was scared to go back and look at all this stuff through the years.

Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.

What made me sign with the Cardinals? Because they used salesmanship, the personal touch.

In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or a coach.