The more I read arguments for atheism, the more I am convinced it takes a very strong faith to be an atheist. And atheism seems to me the least reasonable of all faiths.

Every challenge you encounter is part of the life’s journey. The challenges must be overcome for the vision to be fulfilled.

Anger is a short madness.

Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall...and then I can write.

The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.

Most of these love triangles are wrecktangles.

Execution is everything.

I just don't see me going through that rehab and coming back to pitch at this point in my life.

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous.

I will never give up politics. I've tried to give it up three times, but I never made it. Politics mobilizes me. I won't last long if I give it up.