I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.