The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.

There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.

But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.

I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.

No matter how beautiful the outside may be, the inside still has feelings and needs that just words don't fulfill.

Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.

The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.

It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

The world meets nobody half way.

The person most in control is the person who can give up control.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

He wasn't sure exactly which day, but what's noteworthy about that is that is also before Valerie Plame is first identified in the Robert Novak piece that ran on Monday, July 14.

I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.

The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.