Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.

Give the agent something easy to reject, something to justify his authority - that way they won't look too closely at the rest of your things.

The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed.

I have a major problem with the division that occurs because of the division of language.

What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.

And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table.

I don't believe in magic ... I don't believe in Jesus ... I don't believe in Buddha ... I don't believe in Elvis ... I don't believe in Beatles.

I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.

I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

Believe in yourself and back yourself to come out on top. A fulfilling career is waiting for those brave enough to find it.