When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them tostop fighting?

Now she wanted for me the same thing I thought I wanted. Acceptance, in her eyes, was simply another means for survival.

Nature cannot be bribed, when the necessary conditions are not met, it does not happen

Pray about everything you want.

It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself.

We were made to be distracted by life, by story.

In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure.

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.

When I think of Spirit, I think of that mysterious force that pulls us into being, into becoming, into love. That can get political rather quickly.

When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.

Petersburg, growing up at home, all by my family and friends, Petersburg really, city-raised me, you know everybody there.

Rich people making their houses bigger in order to make their lives happier wind up hurting their own marriages. There's a deep irony here. Do the couples perceive that irony?