Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. -Tennessee Williams.

When I but hear her sing, I fare Like one that raises, holds his ear To some bright star in the supremest Round; Through which, besides the light that's seen There may be heard, from Heaven within, The rests of Anthems, that the Angels sound.

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

The Christian Church does not want and does not need members because of a job it has to do. The Christian Church has a secret at her heart and she wants to share it. Whenever one, by repentance and forgiveness, enters this community of grace, he discovers life's end, and he too will be constrained to let this life flow out in appropriate channels. Thrilling and costly projects will come into existence, but not as ends in themselves, and the group will not become a means to [such ends]. The group will never forget that one of its primary functions is to up build the members in love.

Desire is the essence of a man.

In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.

Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles Love can forbear, and Love can forgive, ... but Love can never be reconciled to an unlovely object... He can never therefore be reconciled to your sin, because sin itself is incapable of being altered; but He may be reconciled to your person, because that may be restored.

War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

For some extraordinary reason, the Church moves in an atmosphere of antiquity. I have no doubt that it makes for dignity; I have also no coubt that there are times when it makes for complete irrelevance; for, if there is one thing that is true of religion it is that it must always be expressible in contemporary terms. Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

What if this cursed hand Where thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment. •Bible Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat. •Gaelic Proverb There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. •Gilbert K. Chesterton If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. •Arabian Proverb The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. •Benjamin Franklin See with your mind, hear with your heart. •Kurdish Proverb Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together. •David Hare Were it not for hope the heart would break.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge.

It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.

Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around.

The deepest waters make the least noise.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't put on his pants.