I was having health issues all my life. You're just not conditioned to think of them as health issues.

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

We shouldn't have free speech.

People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

I made the connection between food and weight, but feeling good or bad was a separate issue.

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

I thought being vegan was going to be some really horrible way of life that had no flavor.

One day you will be nostalgic for today.

John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.

None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.

I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.

Thank all the people in the world who are always 10% kinder than they need to be.

Check your spiritual birth certificate, you were made in the mighty image of God.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

Hitchcock's murder set-pieces are so potent, they can galvanize (and frighten) even a viewer who's seen them before!

Fredrick Buechner kind of loosened up my clerical collar, you might say.

I get angry when I think that people are blatantly incorrect on matters of fact.