'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet.

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

Something there is moves me to love, and I Do know I love, but know not how, nor why.

A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.

Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.

We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

Progressive policies are harming the Black community.

To make sure our convictions, views, and assumptions about our Creator stay based on biblical truth and not on popular consensus, we must continually check what we believe against the Scriptures.

I don't know if it's better to have people laugh at what you are or just not understand.

I have come to understand what being a public person means. I don't let things I can't do anything about bother me.

To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before

Life is an adventure, dare it.

The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.