I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

Hate wound the heart.

Not everyone Jesus tried to turn back from the brink of destruction responded—nor will they with us.

Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

I think to make any relationship work it just takes a tremendous amount of effort and accepting of one another.

Cats are like Baptists. You know they raise hell, but you can never catch them at it.

The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.

You have to keep a little bit extra fat on the body. The strength and conditioning guy is always all over me about it, but it seems to make guys bounce off me better.

For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.