...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside.

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.

Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.

Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on, I want to ramrod with you, honey, 'til half past dawn.

In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.

The type of girls that would sleep with you in a heartbeat aren't the type of girls I'd want to take home anyway.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.