We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

I hate to be like everyone else, but I'm rooting for San Antonio because I like teams that were built the old-fashioned way.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.

Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well.

But man invents nothing God did not create first.