“Prayer is a matter of giving ourselves to God and learning His laws, so that He can do through us what He wants the most.”

The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need not be afraid to follow it.

As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.

Prayer is not a matter of getting what we want the most.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely.

Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.

People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.