[Christ] has accomplished your salvation. But He has not yet perfected your circumstances. Do not be confused in the two.

I'd rather have names to hurt me, than my bones broken with sticks and stones.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team.

I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective.

The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!

Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.