No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.

There are two things to do in Juneau, drink and get drunk.

It's easy to be a tough competitor and still be the kind of person with whom people love to compete.

If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell.

Better a spirit that does not quite fit in this world than one that is broken.

One of the greatest challenges is not going to the mattresses with someone who criticizes your novel.

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors we borrow it from our children.

True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire Whose wishes soon as granted fly It liveth not in fierce desire.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the dog's owner - and the distance you are from your car.

The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers need rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rugged wall which it embraces.

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.