Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.

In the spectrum of God's mysteries, preaching is a sacrament: Because of its sacramental reality some people have never again been the same.

And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons.

I'm backing down now. I really do love you. That's why I'm doing this.

[God] has in mind a picture of what He intends to create. He breaks, cracks, chisels, and polishes until one day there emerges His vision . . . God has not yet finished with us.

Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust.

More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.

The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.

Everything I do is for my mom. Every time I step out there and try to get better, it's for her.

I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings.

I want my tennis to speak for everything.

Good jobs look a lot like kids playing and adults working.

Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.