If you're afraid of heights, lean over a railing. If you're afraid of germs, lick a floor. But what do you do if your greatest fear is of being afraid?

This is the trouble with origin hunting. There are so many origins.

My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it.

I felt so skinless at times! Things hit me so hard!

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.

So many times nowadays it's about having two good songs on an album and a bunch of filler, and I wanted to make something that I felt every song on the album was fun for everybody.

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures.

We speak much of God, can talk of him, his ways, his works, his counsels, all the day long; the truth is, we know very little of him.

Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.

Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

If I could identify one core problem about the world, it's that we've been taught to distrust ourselves.