No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

A gentleman is someone who never gives offense unintentionally.

One catfish does not make a creek, nor one hero a nation.

Beauty, like an animal, doesn’t always behave.

Instead of being proud that you led someone to God, be more concerned with the person you pushed away from Him.

Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.

On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

You have to comply, you have to obey - or you'd better resign and leave. But that is also the mark of a great leader - somebody who, in the presence of inner conflict, will do the right thing.

The spirits, he said, the souls. They are not angry at the living, they just want to help. Helping others is the only way we can prove we still matter.

No religion can be built on force.

The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is a long and painful return to that which has always been.

Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.