It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.

Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality

Kiss me, and you'll live forever. You'll be a frog, but you'll live forever.

At least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway.

There are tons of kids out there who endure chronic abuse and suffer in silence. They can’t trust anyone, they can’t tell anyone, and they have no idea how to get away from it.

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.

Time perfects men as well as destroys them.

There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted which Christ cannot remove.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.

The record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive.

Only morons start a business on a loan?

Agreeing on the "why" takes all the romance out of everything, takes all the seduction. Seduction used to be an art. Now of course it's brutish and it's predatory and it's bad.

To be successful, you have to expose yourself to different situations-different styles of play, different teammates, different coaching.