My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.

Search for the perfect church if you will; when you find it, join it, and realize that on that day it becomes something less than perfect.

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us.

I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.