At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Johann von Goethe

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Bruce Willis

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

John Milton

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Victor Hugo

I suppose the love of life which periodically deserts most men was returning: like sexual desire, it moves in cycles.

Graham Greene

I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.

Rupert Murdoch

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.

Edward Dahlberg

Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

Denis Diderot

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.

Thomas Carlyle

It just seemed too weird to me. I don't know, maybe they were smoking a joint in the car downstairs from their parents' apartment. I had to go that far to put together a scenario of how they could have possibly recognized me.

Marc Jacobs

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

Francis Bacon