History is nothing if not far-fetched.

When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own.

Some people say home is where you come from. But I think it’s a place you need to find, like it’s scattered and you pick pieces of it up along the way.

Everybody has theology whether they admit it or not.

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space

It was God who created hell as a place to store evil. He didn't do a good job of keeping it there though.

Ageing doesn't mean giving up on style and individuality; it doesn't mean abandoning fashion and living in comfy slippers and flannel knickers.

I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.