The gospel of Jesus Christ is an offense to both religion and irreligion. It can't be co-opted by either moralism or relativism.

At Gethsemane: "Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires.

No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its root, is love.

True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.

On Christ's attitude toward His disciples: "If I gave away My big all to get to you, can you give away your little all to follow Me?

Comparison is the death of joy.

In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce, and worldly pursuits.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.

In order to change a color it is enough to change the color of its background.

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.

You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.

Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.