I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball." "Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.

The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature.

We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly.

You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.