Certainly I accept my role and responsibility as a public figure and a lot of it you take the good with the bad, dealing with different adversities in life, you just try to do the best you can do.

My Favorite Ring is Always the Next One

I have a thing for tools.

When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.

When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.

We can't direct the wind but we can adjust the sail.

Our homes are to be more than sanctuaries. They should also be places where God's spirit can dwell, where the storm stops at the door, where love reigns and peace dwells.

We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude.

Glance backward, look heavenward, reach outward, press onward

Stick to a task 'til it sticks to you. . .for beginners are many, but finishers few.

1904 was the year the American Food and Drug people took the cocaine out of Coca-Cola, which gave us an alcoholic and death oriented generation of Yanks ideally equipped to fight WW II.

You can only cruise the boulevards of regret so far, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again.

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.

And when Franz Ferdinand pays, everybody pays!

In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?

It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.

Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.

There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

It is not possible to be intimate with more than very few, because there are only very few in the world with whom we have practically everything in common.

The peculiar grace of a shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it.

...nearly everything great owes its existence to “despites”: despite misery and affliction, poverty, desolation, physical debility, vice, passion, and a thousand other obstacles.

And then he'd rub his cheeks with cold cream because he'd just shaved and the tears stung.

Almost every artistic nature is born with a revealing connoisseurial tendency that appreciates injustice so long as it results in beauty and applauds, even worships aristocratic privilege.

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.