We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences that were intentionally created and guaranteed along with it.– Gerald Sider.

The mental mist of ambiguity and the fog of ambivalence hamper human existence.

Satan knows your name but he calls you by your sin.

How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.

He that will be surety, shall pay.

Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where he was, he just hit.

I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

The Catholic Church is not dead, it is not even tired!

Marketing yourself to a new person often involves being charismatic, clever and quick-but most jobs and most relationships are about being consistent, persistent and brave.