Gods, like men, can die. They just die harder, and smite the earth with their passing.

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

Today, the majority of poor renting families in America spend over half of their income on housing, and at least one in four dedicates over 70 percent to paying the rent and keeping the lights on.

That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.

There is no fashion for the old.

We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.

Our infrastructure will again be the best and we will restore the pride in our communities, our nation, and all over the United States we'll be proud again.

Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least she liked her clothes.

Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached their goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, are demons.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation.

Kings kill; clowns don't; therefore the clowns of the kings are more valuable than the kings!