Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.

The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.