Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.

I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.

Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.

What if someone picks on me?" I askedThen I'll pick on them".What if someone picks my nose?" I asked.The I'll pick your nose, too" Rowdy said.

(I think Rowdy might be the most important person in my life. maybe more important than my family.) Can your best friend be more importamt than your family?

I was emotionally erect.

I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.

I could feel it--inside, and I decided that night, reading poetry beneath a caged light bulb, that real was when you could fee your whole body light up from within.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?

He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.

Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

I think in music there is just something inherently spiritual in singing together and harmonizing, and gospel is the truest form of that.

The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.

I like everybody at 'Criminal Minds.' I would like to guest star, but I don't know if that is in the cards.

Magic is the only way to describe it, climbing pitch after pitch of the most perfect, beautifully sculpted granite in the world.