Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and sympathy, can be transformed into love.

But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall to wish to erect a new and better one in its place.

There is something about just setting the pen to paper that lifts me and helps to focus my energy and thoughts.

Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.

Don’t expect a reward for what you do, from people, rather what matters is how you walk and are valued by God

My style is my personality. It's always been that way. Being a wiseguy and having fun. It's always been that way for me, when I was in high school, and in the Navy. It's not something I rehearse.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.

I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing.

Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with.

And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you're buying a book with my name on it, I feel I owe it to you to have it be the best book that I can make it.

I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections.

Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.