Unlike last year, we're not just happy to be here in the Finals

I dont believe it wins championships. (It) gets you to the playoffs.

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

You might as well laugh at yourself, everyone else is.

Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don't run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.

Do you get a nice monthly check from the government for dwelling on things?

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life.

The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.

I think we can lower our emissions. I think the world will be better off if we did that, and we can do it without cap and trade.

Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.

The devil would gladly give a Bible to every man and promote obedience to its commands if in exchange we would surrender to him the Gospel