My dad knew that if I wanted to make a career out of it, I needed to go to NASCAR rather than dirt racing. Personally, I like dirt racing a little bit more. It's a little more fun.

True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.

Initiative without action is the same as having the mind to acknowledge a problem, but not having the heart to see it through.

I was so happy that my mother, father, and two brothers had somehow found one another. Perhaps my mother and father have gotten back together, I thought.

We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.

In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe

God will judge people on the basis of what they did in light of what they knew.

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.