If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road.

God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms.

But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.

Art is first a seeing and then a revealing

Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.

It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.

Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.

A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

Her death...brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealousy of God. It saved her faith from assault.

To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.

What we did see was that jealousy is fear: it can corrode even if quite baseless.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

I have a deep, abiding, infatuation for words, sentences, and stories.

All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.

The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.

What I do for exercise sort of depends on what's happening in the rest of my life.

Hillary Clinton is only talking about families who come here in violation of the law. We will treat everyone living or residing in our country with great dignity. So important.

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.

That's the essence of songcraft: making something everyone can understand yet it still sounds new.

For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.