It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.

More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.

It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.

I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.

Who cares if a movie star has an opinion unless the person is very well informed?

I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.

Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

God, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given you this quarter of an hour for repentance. Reflect, then, wretched man, and repent.

Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.

Prayer is a mighty ministry that any believer can have—anywhere, anytime, and in any circumstance.

I suppose listening to a double album is kind of like going to the chiropractor... It's pretty good for you but you can't force it on anyone else.

Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.

I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

Everyone has Love towards some thing or other, and that Love is a spark of the Divine; everyone has ultimately to base his life on some one Truth; that Truth is God.

We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.