A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.

..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.

Saints can spring from any soil.

My own journey started long before I left, and was over before I returned.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious.