I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants [...] Fear implies respect.

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.

The Women of Our World are like Mother Earth. They don't just give life to the next generation but also to Hope. The Women of Our World are to be loved, respected and protected.

No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself.

A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.

When I think about who influenced my life the most as a Leader, I think of my Mother. She, more than anyone, taught me how to lead with love.

I've been playing baseball since I was four. I've got baseball in my blood. I love baseball.

you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

You should recognize that criticism is not always a put down. If you take it to heart, maybe it will guide the way you ought to be going.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.