All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system.

Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.

Not to decide is to decide.

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.

Most people do kiss and tell

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.

She was the only one who made him hear music. The only one who made him feel home. The only one who wanted nothing more than for him to be plain, simple Will Truitt.

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

Political suicide can end a career.

Praise God we don't have to hide scars

I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.

Thanks for the memory Of lingerie with lace, Pilsner by the case And how I jumped the day you trumped my one-and-only ace How lovely it was!

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.