Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation

SNL is a home. You've got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it's a great time.

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

I think God gives us all that in his Word because he's a loving Father.

If you become a father, you're not doing things for yourself anymore. You're thinking about someone else. And that is not a burden.

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide.

I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank.