"What we choose, changes us. What we love, transforms us."

“One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so you can do it year-round.”

“Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.”

Source : Rocky Mountain News column, March 31, 2000.

“There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from the Union Army were adamantly opposed to freeing slaves. We cite these facts and recorded statistics to point out that the principal cause of the war was not the issue of slavery.”

“I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.”

“You, too, will someday die, perhaps under inconvenient circumstances, at a time when you do not particularly wish to, and for causes that you cannot yet predict.”

“My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.”

“A relationship needs constant attention. It’s a living thing, not just a habit. You’ve got to keep on top of it.”

Source : Matt Dunn (2008). “The Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

“I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work.”