The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.'That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.

Fog is more dangerous than dark, as it gives the illusion of seeing.

Giving out of your surplus does not make you generous, it makes your selfishness more tolerable! Giving while you are lacking is what pleases the Lord.

Pressure point! Pressure point!

He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.

When you cross the line, it is such a wonderful feeling it's hard to describe.

I'm not out here to be showing you I'm this perfect person.

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.

When somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a good way, that's how development happens.

When Mrs. Jinnah feels cold, she will say so, and ask for a wrap herself.

I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham.