If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.

Science could not fill the hole in my soul.

People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices.

A great sage is like a tree, he lives just to help others, just to make this world beautiful.

PoemWords from the heartBreaking, teaching, healingThe deepest, purest form of artFeeling

I had no idea how free we were. That's how free I was.

Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.

In America, you’re allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God’s big book of bad ideas.

There is a spiritual realm that is available to all who find its many entrances.

Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.

I only write to understand myself better... I don't try to show how intelligent or how cultivated I am, I just try to share my soul. Sharing is part of life.

The love of God is not generic. God looks with love upon every man and woman, calling them by name.

Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.