There I was, poised on the edge of the high diving board of life, and the pool kept moving around.

I was 8, 569 miles away, 37 butt-numbing hours of travel across seven time zones in the last two days, or was it three? Amelia Earhart, eat your heart out.

Slowly, all the days became Saturdays, full of more sunlight than I could remember seeing in a long time.

Toilet paper was either bleached white or unbleached gray, yet there were more than a dozen kinds of ketchup and about 30 brands of cookies. I approved of their priorities.

Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?

I am an optimist and when I am too sure of something or someone, well, of course it turns out that I am wrong .. at other situations, I imagine the worst and needless to say, I am again wrong

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.

Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis.

A bird, music and food -desert island items

I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear.

Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God's sake.

I quickly realized that Patti [Smith] was somebody very special.