The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up.

I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air - air you can kiss - and palms.

If you continue with that train of thought and end it with, I did it because I love you and can’t bear to see you in turmoil, you could sell it to Hallmark, but not to me!

One who rules is ruled.

The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'

When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there.

Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.

I am earth, earth My heart's love Bursts with hay and flowers. I am a lake of blue air In which my own appointed place Field and valley Stand reflected

The guys in high school were like, "You've got a nice voice; you should keep singing," but I never honestly thought that one day I'd be a singer. When you're young, you don't see the signs.