There's something about physical labour that helps to chase away any lingering internal demons.

… real life hardly ever unfolds the way we’d like it to, not like in a story.

If you're going to make the past your present, be prepared for a lifetime of dust ...

We need stories in order to understand ourselves, for good or bad, to be inspired or horrified, it's how we cope with being human and how we decide what type of person we will become.

Living on the water took away the boundaries created by land and custom and introversion. Without fences and driveways, the water provided a constant thread of connection and dependency.

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

Some of the most racist things that I've ever heard come out of people that are on the air at ESPN. There are some of the biggest racists in sports commentating, and you take it for what it is.

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

I'm the one who's always been there for you... not him!

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seek advice, but make sure it's from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities.

You look tired." "Yeah," I agreed, and shrugged. "Near-death experiences do that to me . . .

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.