Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!

If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Wise men speak because they have something to say

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

Success for me hasn't been about individual success. It's about the success of all those young boys and girls who I have the honor of working with.

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.

When life becomes painful, it means God is saying, “I have a better plan for you

The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.

A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.

Those brain-zapped kids weren’t the only - or maybe even the worst - enemy.

To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

Bull riding is probably the most dangerous sport in the world in terms of head injuries.

I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.