On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Where there's a will, there's a potential for murder

Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

You become a champion as a team. I understand that. I know the history of the game.

I've recently learned not to take things personally. We can get offended by anything if we want to.

Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.

Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]