Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.

There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.

Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.

After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life.

Oh no, " I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to.

This helping-people business was an attractive idea, I'll admit, because up to now I'd not done much more than be, and when I wasn't just being, I'd caused some pain, too.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.

Good people equals good management and good management equals good people.

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.

Tomorrow, I will take on all of these things. I will be unstoppable.

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him.

I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.