There was something odd for him about not feeling lonely. The very fact that he had ceased to be lonely caused him to fear the possibility of becoming lonely again.

Each memory was now the shadow of a shadow of a shadow. The only thing that remained tangible to him was the sense of absence.

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

Find your uniqueness and embrace it with pride.

I believe very deeply that this beauty I call the soul is not a random occurrence. I don't know what its meaning is at some larger level, but I know that it has meaning.

I would hate to have gone through life as a beautiful woman because they all too often get discounted.

Arizonians are deeply proud of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's service to this country. She will always be remembered by Arizonans and all Americans as an extraordinary public servant.

I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man.

The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits us all.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

I'm not a comic book guy. I've never been to Comic-Con. I don't know anything about that. It's a whole different world.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.