I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

When we think we can manage our time, our circumstances, and our relationships without His help and inspiration, we know what unmanageability is.

I will murder you by the billions to give you immortality. I will set fire to your civilization to light your way forward. But know this: My species is not defined by your dying, but by your living.

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.

Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!

In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it.

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.

In the mountains, there you feel free.

There is no justice, and great harm, in diminishing the whole array of future opportunity to save a few people now from a regrettable fate.