The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.

I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died.

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines

There's only one way to become an eagle, and that's to be born an eagle.

She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

It is good advice to slow down a little, steady the course, and focus on the essentials when experiencing adverse conditions.

I am really addicted to music.

You're an idiot. Study harder.

They all know I'm back, very much back, and that I will be the general president again come hell or high water.

What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery

I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.