No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.

Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love."

In intercessory prayer, one seldom ends where one began.

Work without contemplation is never enough.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

Don't be ashamed for lack of knowledge. The real crime is having but not using it

Much more likely you’ll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I’ve got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.

My songs are just little letters to me.

We have blacks and whites, Jews and Arabs, Serbs and Croats, and Filipinos and Vietnamese here. At the end of the day, everyone is each other's brother.

You only got one life. You can't sit around waiting for your next life to begin.

My absolute favorite movie of all time is Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.' Nothing compares to it. I have seen it thousands of times and still watch it every few weeks.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.