I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.

Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

When you're in bed, you're dead

The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.

All these people that you meet or I meet, there's not a prayer in hell that they're ever going to run for office or major office because if they're that smart, they're also smart enough to know they don't want to take everything that they've built up and have it torn apart by a sensationalized media that's so hungry for any kind of salacious detail that they'll make that the emphasis of the person's life. And then all of sudden, 50, 60 years of hard work and accomplishment go out the window.

my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" from the book of Isaiah