The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral.

All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.

Christ is the aperture through which the immensity and magnificence of God can be seen.

Your God is too Small

Christianity is not a religion at all but a way of life, a falling in love with God, and through him a falling in love with our fellows.

The truth taught by Jesus Christ is the right way to live.

Thoughts have unfathomable dimension.

I have taught some master classes and things at my alma mater and sometimes at my kids' school. I will go in and talk to the theater students. I wouldn't really call myself a teacher.

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.

If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.

Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

One of my Secrets of Adulthood is: Most decisions don't require extensive research.

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.