There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.

There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.

Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?

People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out

I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.

... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.

I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you've got issues with control.

That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.

Happiness is not a reward. It's a consequence. You have to work at it every day.

It's in the nature of the landscape to change, and it's in the nature of people to help the process along...

At any moment we can demonstrate our faith by taking action that shows our belief in God's promises!

Just my luck: My bloodthirsty killing machine was better with both kids and women than I was.

The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

The persons you long for, who have gone to heaven before you, will be waiting for you when you die. They will be ready to comfort you and escort you to heaven.

Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as jazz.

If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.

Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.