No one can whistle a symphony.

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

I believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person. Our task is the sharing of intense faith and experience.

The Christian message is not an exhortation - "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.

We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.

You have constellationsgrowing under your skin.starlight in the blood spilledwhen they stole your feathers

Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival the departure.

I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

I don't listen to weakies.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence.

A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

Thing is, I wasn't in the library, didn't study too much, didn't get the best grades, but honestly, I didn't party a lot either. I stayed in a lot.

They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about.

I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.