"You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman, master."

“In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.”

“The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.”

Source : Thomas Berry, Mary Evelyn Tucker (2009). “The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-first Century”, p.145, Columbia University Press

“Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.”

Source : Henry Merritt Wriston (1943). “Challenge to freedom”

“Glimpses is dead-on about the high and tight nineties even as it reaches out for the sweet hereafter of the sixties. It longs for something better, and finds it, I guess, as much as anything is ever found anymore. It's a mean, sweet, wry, and disturbing book, in equal portions.”

“When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone.”

“My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.”

“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”

“If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?”