"I am not, and have never been, in favor of boycotting Israel."

“Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.”

“I burn a lot of stuff. My son, bless his heart, eats it anyway. But he makes a face!”

“When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.”

“We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy.”

Source : "The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson". Interview with Sam Anderson, www.nytimes.com. March 14, 2013.

“Preaching is the primary means of growth for the local church. There is a great deal of debate about this in our day, but it is the preaching of the Word that God most uses to build up a church, not only numerically but above all (and far more importantly) in spiritual depth and understanding of the people who make up the congregation.”

“Ride it when you retire.”

Source : "Steelers Quarterback Roethlisberger Seriously Injured in Motorcycle Crash". www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2006.

“It's what I'd like from my life - to live and learn, be wise and to go on without bitterness.”

“I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.”