Never underestimate the ridiculous things that have been done in the name of religious-semantic obscurity.

We be light, we be life, we be fire! We sing electric flame, we rumble underground wind, we dance heaven! Come be we and be free!

Whatever happened next, good or bad, it would be wonderful finding out.

You can actually accomplish all that you desire in life.

Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks.

The secret of patience ... to do something else in the meantime.

Everyone belongs to everyone else.

Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.

The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out.

If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.