The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

I am very happyBecause I have conquered myselfAnd not the world.I am very happyBecause I have loved the worldAnd not myself.

The only deadline that concerns me is the day that I die and whether or not I had loved enough while I was here.

What would you sacrifice for power?

The Gospel is the walking life, not the walking dead.

I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.

Between the subject and the object lies the value.

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.

What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.