Sadness is a part of life

There are too many years around this table, too much time confined in one place.

You cannot receive God when you block people from your life

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

I listen to my records and I think, 'Wow, these are really great appetizers. I haven't even considered what I'm going to order for the full entree meal yet.'

San Francisco! City of dreaming spires, people live here... Golden Gate Bridge, ahh the Romans came here.

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.

To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.