Upstate New York quotes

My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.

We must all take care to resist the tendency to focus too much attention on the role that criminals and prior offenders play in gun violence.

We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.

Give a man a suicide bomb, he blows up once. Teach a man to suicide bomb, he also blows up once.

If you're emotional and you're great at something, the money will follow.

After close to a year of traveling, I had seen things in the world and in myself, both good and bad, that I had never noticed before. I was struggling daily with pride and insecurity, homesickness and loneliness, with the burden of picking up my cross and following Jesus. This journey produced a new hunger for redemption in me.

Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.

He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.

Tomorrow gives a beck'ning hand-- I turn my face away; I'll not invite her to my home-- I only love Today.

I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.