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

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

In the deep shivering winter, I can feel the joy of a dancing summer in my heart.

Between any two beings there is a unique, uncrossable distance, an unenterable sanctuary. Sometimes it takes the shape of aloneness. Sometimes it takes the shape of love.

Always refer to those of the female gender as ladies.The descriptive woman is usually reserved in Dixie for females of questionable respect.

The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.

The home is where part of the family waits until the others are through with the car.

You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

The one who actually decided that I should keep my name was my manager, Erv Woolsey.

What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

Thinking is more stinking than drinking, but to feel is for real.

Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience - twenty times.