Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.

Let your face speak what's in your heart. When my kids walk in the room my face says I'm glad to see them.

I'm losing the definition now of politics. I sort of don't know what that is anymore. People say politically correct, I don't know what that means. I know what they think they mean.

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.

Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.