We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.

Sweetie, this is Hell. We invented paperwork.

And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable.

...one can never leave home...one carries the shadows, the dreams, the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes...

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too. (When asked if he noticed how slowly Earl Campbell got up after each play.)

There were days when Keanu was looking a little green from the amount of cigarettes we were having him smoke.

To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like a planet, but we've got to try.

Even on the cable network MSNBC, some of the strongest proponents of [Barack] Obama are now beginning to question, if I may use their words, their "deity."

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life

The history and our experience shows that Democrats and Republicans think the same way in some cases, and their ideas aren't very different when it comes to international relations.