He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.

No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.

I've never been more comfortable in a part than with Colonel Potter.

I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

Traveling as much as I do, I get lonely sometimes. I have friends now in cities all over the world, so I get to be social, but it's hard to have the deep meaningful relationships, especially an intimate one. With my guy friends, I can show up once a month and go to dinner with them and they're happy.

80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage.

I appreciated and respected kids who asked questions. They didn't do it to get attention, but because they were interested. Kids who didn't want to look dumb seemed like scared little rabbits.

The federal government should only be providing services for emergencies. You and I, taxpayers, shouldn't be paying for cell phones so someone can have a social life. I just don't think it's appropriate.

I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on a rope.

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

I think deep down I'm spiritual, but there's nothing I practice.

The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground while the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.

We don't live in a world where any job lasts forever.

People always give me styling products and stuff.

Too much free time is certainly a monkeys paw in disguise. Most people cant handle a structureless life.

This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets and they use them against you.