Sin is a fact of life. It is the way we deal with it that changes ours.

Treat sins that your children struggle with like basic math. Practice, Practice, and you'll get it.

Moral conduct in the worldly life [vyavahaar charitra] is to behave in a way that hurts no woman and to not look at a woman lustfully.

But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.

The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.

And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

Always overpay your taxes.That way you'll get a refund.

Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.