""The caddie will only drink the more if overpaid," you say. Indeed! and to what good purpose do you apply the money you grudge to the poor? Is there something nobler in your gout and dyspepsia than in my caddie's red nose?"

“There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.”

“When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.”

Source : Charles L. Allen (2003). “All Things Are Possible Through Prayer: The Faith-Filled Guidebook That Can Change Your Life”, p.51, Revell

“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.”

“American law needs to reflect gods law.”

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”

Source : Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.333, Modern Library

“I've put live performance in a lot of spaces. Part of what I want to do is take over the takeover. Another way that someone put it is, you climb over the fence and you cut a hole in it, and let everyone else in. That's kind of what this is. The museum is a repository of great works, but there is certain work that no one ever calls great. This is an insistence on directing their attention to other stuff that's great, that never gets to be in a museum.”

“Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.”

“If you’re in a hole, stop digging.”