You treat God like you treat any dangerous looney — keep him calm and stay on his good side.

You have to own your days and name them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.

You have got to own your days and live them each one of them every one of them or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.

Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

There is something about just setting the pen to paper that lifts me and helps to focus my energy and thoughts.

Being a ruler is, contrary to popular notions, a calling of self-sacrifice. That is, if one wants to be a good ruler.

Wisdom tells me I am nothing, love tells me I am everything. Between the two, my life flows.

The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.

You want to do something very simple but also very fantastic? Then sit under the rain! Not long after, yourself will leave you and there will remain only the rain!

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

The one thing you absolutely need is the one thing you can never lose: God's presence and love for you. Just have to talk to him.

I dedicate my love and whole heart this Memorial Day to my Dad, a soldier, who like many others, suffers in silence with pride and honor.