my unexpected trip to the light may have been cancelled, but here I was, still paying the cost of the return ticket

But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes.

Language, as much as land, is a place. To be cut off from it is to be, in a sense, homeless.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

As people seek to improve their living environment, there will be continuous demand for residential property. Investment in real estate market should have reasonable prospects in the long run.

And the first king was a lucky soldier.

I had never been to Hawaii, and now I say that my body is from L.A. but my heart is from Hawaii, because I'm in love with it and it's home on every level, from a spiritual, soulful place.

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

No matter what happens, you're always going to have those critics and those haters. You just have to learn how to deal with that. I think I have and accept that.