I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon

End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.

Necessity is a mother.

The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, "Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.

Some looks are heavier than the thickest books because they carry the saddest stories of life!

To reciprocate God’s love is to have his love nature

But if we do not dream, then I think perhaps we are misusing our heads. They are not on our shoulders only to be farms for hair.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

I eat as healthy as I can. It is tough.

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor.

My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.

It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies.

When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea; it is sure to be bad.