If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head.

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.

Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep.

You are dehydrated, " I said. "The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good.

The sun set, which is everyday magic...

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

There can be no centrein infinity.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.

You never have to get up at 6 am, if you don't want to get up at 6 am.

Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?

Sometimes I don't feel like the person that I'm supposed to be. I don't feel like I deserve any of this.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

To be unforgiving is like to drink poison and wait for someone else to die!! Rev. TD Jakes (have I said how much I love ya!)