....her life would be a giddy crossword, working down from some clues and across from others.

Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.

Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

Fair is whatever God wants to do.

I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.

Pride is the rope God allows us all.

It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in the world.

Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going back. Make of it what you will.

You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.

Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth.

When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.

To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.

I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.

Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness.

My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

Comedians and Feminists... are natural enemies, because stereotypically-speaking, feminists can't take a joke and... comedians can't take criticism.

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.

It's easier to lose than to win.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.