I saw a lot of people taking the wrong routes, coming up as a kid, just doing the wrong things.

Lakers just been taking care of business for a long time now. It's easy to love them.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general.

My great grandma, she's in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she's seen. I learn a lot from her.

I just always loved watching the History Channel and stuff like that. I could come home from school and just watch it all day. It just interested me.

You see guys getting in trouble, but you also see the good in people. It's just a matter of always learning.

You've got to be a Lakers fan growing up in L.A. with all these championships.

It's intense in every sport. No matter what, USC vs. UCLA is crazy. Especially when it comes down to football and basketball, it's just nuts.

Why do the living assume the dead know better than we do?Like they gained some knowledge by dying, but why wouldn’t they just be the same confused people they were before they died?

Gratitude is the heart's memory.

I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.

In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left

"Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love.

One inch of love is an inch of ashes.

The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.