I'm usually pretty reserved, but I really couldn't hold myself in because I was so excited for these guys.

People ask me what Nick (Saban) says to me on the sidelines. It is just, 'I love you so much. Can we just run some.'

The best education makes our minds more fertile.

I didn't like showing weakness, not to anybody.

Get crazy in prayer. Ask for the seemingly impossible

When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.

Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

a life is measured by moments like these

The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.

I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.