"[On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down."

“It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.”

“As long as there is death, there is hope”

“Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband anymore.”

“Well, actually I look at the book and the movie [Deliver Us From Evil] - the movie isn't about a cop or the Devil, it's about God. There's a spirituality. We have aspects of life we're involved in but we really have no idea about the spiritual battle that rages around us that we are the subject of. The whole matter is the Devil tries to take souls away from God, and God tries to keep them. And that's what this is all about.”

“A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.”

“Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing. In fact, you place so little value on experience that when what your experience of God differs from what you've heard of God, you automatically discard the experience and own the words, when it should be just the other way around.”

“Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years.”

“At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being.”