I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

She knew then that white was more than a color: It was a cold, pale shade of understanding that seems to take all of your hope away.

What differentiates brother most from brother and beast is neither purpose, perspective nor prowess. It is simply intent.

She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.

Believers who come to know the Scripture in a living way, in both knowledge and Spirit, can in turn, use this Word to minister to people around them.

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

Pain can give you sight or make you blind.

I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being on the road.

The New York Times has had fake stories. CBS has had fake stories. And now Newsweek had a fake story. You realize the only one that hasn't had to print a retraction is the National Inquirer

Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.

Everywhere you see in creation there is Divine love. Love is the highest force, the greatest force, and the simplest