"I always saw myself performing on stage and the girls yelling out my name."

“I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration.”

“Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.”

“Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity.”

“Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)”

“war to win peace is at best a dangerously illogical method.”

Source : Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

“You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind.”

Source : Jim Wallis (2006). “God's Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get it”, p.22, Lion Books

“There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt—it meant something.”

“As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.”

Source : "Go Orange!". National Review Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.