It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

In the morning prayer is the key that opens to us the treasures of God's mercies and blessings in the evening it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.

Doubt is really a groping ignorance.

I was a huge Radiohead fan growing up.

It takes courage to live your dream and bounce back up when you have been knocked down. Your dreams give you the energy and inspiration to live a great life.

I am as close to changing my life as my current positive thought

Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.

Cats love one so much - more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves.

Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.