people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

Falsehood is never in words

Loss taught me the value of tears. Just as the rains come down to wash away debris and dust, tears unleashed can bring relief.

Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Ruth and I are happily incompatible.

I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.

We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.

North Dakota is a great state. Everybody is real supportive up there. I couldn't ask for a better place to call home.