They wanted to help me with my pain.

Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.

I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.

Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.

What if someone picks on me?" I askedThen I'll pick on them".What if someone picks my nose?" I asked.The I'll pick your nose, too" Rowdy said.

(I think Rowdy might be the most important person in my life. maybe more important than my family.) Can your best friend be more importamt than your family?

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

One grateful thought is a ray of sunshine.  A hundred such thoughts paint a sunrise.  A thousand will rival the glaring sky at noonday - for gratitude is light against the darkness.

If forgiveness is medicine for the soul, then gratitude is vitamins.

I say the one thing Hillary Clinton has over me is experience, but it's bad experience, because what she has done has turned out badly.

I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more character than it did when I was in my 20s and 30s. No Botox for me.

I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Watching myself still makes me uneasy - and when you're younger, you're even more unforgiving.

Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.

To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.