Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.

Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

Humans tend to build walls when they should be opening doors.

The best way to get even is to forget.

She said interruptions were simply God's appointments.

Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.

I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

I have no right to judge anyone, but I have the right to love everyone.

If my phrases shock the reader, that only shows it is high time he or she was shocked.

I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.

When I don't know what to do, I just open my mouth. Why won't anyone date me?

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

The sky was full of stars, and every star an exploding ship.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.