You don't have to be crazy to be my friend. I'll train you.

He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite.

Though miles may lie between us, we're never far apart, for friendship doesn't count the miles, it's measured by the heart.

Violence against women is an everyday reality, act now, always, and forever before its too late.

There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.

When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.