Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and air and weather were.

And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or women. He aint going to have time to quit.

Is there any holy beings like human beings?

Prayer is a sacred-utterance to God.

There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren't a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.

If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.

Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

Thank you Madonna and fans for an experience of a lifetime!

God doesn't ask you to figure it all out. He only asks you to believe.

Where you're from only matters in relation to where you are.

If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.