Vocation at its deepest level is, 'This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't fully understand myself but that are nonetheless compelling.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.

The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.

Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of limits, regarding limits of all sorts as temporary and regrettable impositions on our lives.

With God, there is no burden beyond the strength of endurance.

You haven't seen god but god is always an invisible one to show you the way to understand yourself.

If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world

I'd love to do my own music for sure. I'd love to have a band.

We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.

CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.

It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

Mustard's no good without roast beef.

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.