Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

Creating Identity

Future is awesome. All we have to do now is to build it.

Always believe you can change the world – even if it’s only a tiny bit, because every tiny bit needed someone who changed it.

I would never forbid you. I can’t forbid you. It’s not in my power to, and it never should be.

Acceptance is not submission it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.

It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year.