We were driven off like rats in five minutes.

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

We were driven off like rats in five minutes.

I am supposing or perhaps only hoping that our future may be found in the pasts fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism... They're trying to level the playing field because they know they can't beat us tank for tank, plane for plane.

You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money.

I need to be working with the art world in N.Y.C. as much as I need to be working in my studios in Chicago and rural Wisconsin.

It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of homophobia. Homosexuals have been notoriously persecuted under Fidel's government.

Assisted suicide is not a benefit its a threat.

I miss improv. I hate it in a way - watching it, doing it - but only because it's so challenging and nerve wracking. Improv is the only belief system I've ever experienced that directly works on how to be. Just how to be.

When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.

If you want improvements in coal, you've got to keep people in the business.

Black coffee must be strong and very hot if strong coffee does not agree with you do not drink black coffee. And if you do not drink black coffee do not drink any coffee at all.

Recognition is most easily indicated by finding a market... Artists who want recognition, shows and respect for their talent must work hard for it.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.

A short horse is soon curried.

My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

In my case, vertical food was less about standing things up than layering things: more an attempt to gain texture by weaving things together.

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

I don't think I have the mileage on me to really complain of any injuries yet.

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient provided it at the same time produces amendment.

Celebrate endings, for they precede new beginnings.

A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.