I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.

Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God's personal concern.

God draws straight with crooked lines.

It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

How can you get what you want if you do not know what you are seeking?

Love is a kind of military service.

Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper.

Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

People are not going to like everything.

True love does not consist in trying to correct others, but in feeling joy that things are better than we expected.

Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.

But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.