A good, all-loving god would not destroy his creations no matter how they act. He tells parents to love their children unconditionally. I say 'you first, God.'

If only religious leaders could be trusted, then maybe there wouldn't be so many problems. They have perverted any truth that the Bible may have.

Looking at the Bible, it would seem that God is just a more highly evolved human.

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.

As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.

African Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

I'm still with that feeling that I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, because somebody is going to punish me.

A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with the first few verses of the book of Genesis.

Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

I'm the author of my own misery.

Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.

Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.