Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

The Messiah was born in a manger in Bethlehem.

The problem that we have with a victim mentality is that we forget to see the blessings of the day. Because of this, our spirit is poisoned instead of nourished.

Inches make a champion.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

A good impression is lost so quickly.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading.

My job as a leader is not to say, 'Hey, look at me. I'm a leader.' It's to lead. I mean, I've got to go out and find ways to win these games.