I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

I’m half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That’s why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I’ve seen so many.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

I love traveling all over the world; but it’s true: there’s nothing like home.

I guess if I’m a product, either you’re chocolate, you’re vanilla or you’re butterscotch. You can’t be all three.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

Littera scripta manet – ‚The written word will remain‘. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he’s Frank and in Chicago he’s Ernest.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

What an encouraging thought that Jesus – our beloved Husband – can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel’s heart.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.

For some reason, I’m really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

If you feel that there’s the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can’t, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you’d be a very strange person indeed.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?

The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.

I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.