I've learned... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

One needs to pursue some sort of a creative interest in order to keep life from eating us alive.

Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body")

No children were harmed or neglected during the writing of this book.

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.

No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again.

There ain't no me if there ain't no you.

Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?

God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing

Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset.