The first thing I am going to tell my successor is, don't trust the military men – even on military matters." JFK

Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront.

Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily, the obscenity: but the death of the God-Man was both.

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

The belief that others think they are right doesn't mean that they are.

Being a writer means you get to live vicariously through your characters

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.

I completely understand the responsibility I have in continuing the sonic style that I have created.

There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice -- don't gamble.