My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

I like pushing boundaries.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

My son has died of AIDS.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

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

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.