Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me.

We are stuck with not knowing what our actions will actually lead to.

There's a tangle between weakness and vulnerability.

As beings who cannot know the outcome of any particular action, it is difficult for us to act in a way that will be necessarily beneficial to another, or necessarily detrimental.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

You cannot have your cake and eat it.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.

That kid ain't got no bills to pay, he ain't got no kids; When you're that young to him it's only all about the sport he's playing. You don't have to worry about nuthin' else!

I'm against fashionable thinking.

Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.

We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means.

It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.