"Once you get to the plate, you have two options: You either quit, or you try to hit the ball."

“I'm really just trying to do things that I enjoy. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to. I just have to think if I like those different kinds of music, there are other people who aren't so different from me.”

Source : Interview with Jody Denberg, www.austinchronicle.com. September 11, 1998.

“You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.”

“The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.”

“As the possibility of a relationship had faded, Emma had endeavored to harden herself to Dexter's indifference and these days a remark like this caused no more pain than, say, a tennis ball thrown sharply at the back of her head.”

“What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.”

“Father Jude Nnorom also criticized his church leaders, saying the simple lifestyle followed by Pope Francis should challenge African bishops to ask themselves.”

“Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!”

“You must never let your personal life be outpaced by your professional life. If you do, [if] your professional life takes more of your time than your personal life, then that's called stress, okay? And it's called worry and things like that. Worry is a sign that you're trying to be God. The greatest stress reliever to me is this sentence: God is God, and I'm not.”