I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

All I know is this: If you and papa are responsible for the way I am, then I thank you with all my heart, for it is the light and the joy of my life.

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.

There is no fifth destination.

We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.

We feel that what's too far is when you make a joke and somebody gets hurt.

A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.

I have... submitted the resignation of the government, and I have declared that I will not be a candidate to head the (next) government.

Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.

Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.

In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.