I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure.

That is true strength. To want what you have, and not what someone else is holding.

I had two speeds, which often varied with my blood alcohol level: fine with whatever, and never, ever satisfied. Where was the balance between these two?

It wasn't fair that my friends could stay at Captain Morgan's pirate ship party while I was drop-kicked into a basement with homeless people chanting the Serenity Prayer.

Moving a pile of bricks from one side of the room to the other requires strength. Time, discipline, patience.

None of us deserve God's forgiveness. The Bible says to forgive because God forgave us. It doesn't say anything about deserving it or even asking for it.

Pray that the summer mornings are many when with such pleasure, with such joy you will enter ports seen for the first time

Leaders who nurture followers to be leaders, keep leading even when they retire, and they keep winning the admiration of leading leaders

If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.

I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

It is simply service that measures success.

Focus on yourself -- do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda.

It is a river of ideas from which I fish out sounds that make my soul happy.

One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.