Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.

Relevance is not a substitute for the Gospel, but an entry point for it

One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.

Trust your heart’s feeling, accept it and be happy.

Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.

If you're not a wreck in this business, you're not around.

I must say, I don't think there's any more challenging music out there in jazz than what we're doing.

I think we don't need to be talking about hyphenated Americans, because we are all Americans, and we all want the same thing.

Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.

It's a gift. Never lend a book.

Democrats, overpaid celebrities, the mainstream media that are so lazy, they are willing to endanger your lives, gamble with your life to try and score cheap political points!

I hate when people use my tactics against me.