It was stupid not to let MacArthur finish off those rice eaters. Push 'em back.

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.

There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

Gratitude leads to wellness.

I called no one, and no one called me. I was suffocating with loneliness. The pain was almost physical. I felt like tearing myself apart. I wanted to escape from my own skin.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.

I like to be able to connect with people. And that's how I connect, right away. I like to really talk to somebody. To me, it makes my night more interesting.

Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

A woman's posterior is the key to my heart.

Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.

Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit.

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.