Here's to one of the most beautiful kind thoughtful people I have ever known . . . You are getting more like me every day.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

I visit you in my dreams and you talk to me in songs. Each sentence is a bridge taking me closer to the city that you are.

A bright man of conviction and action is a beacon to his country, but a flash light to the scurrying of inaction, ego, and insecurity of lesser men.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired.

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

God is my spiritual guide. Half the music I come up with I really don't know where it comes from.

My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.