"Nothing is of its nature evil, and nothing is of its nature good. Evil is only excess, good is simply balance. All things are subject to abuse, all things are susceptible to beneficial use. And balance does not consist in denial, or excess of indulgence."

“No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure”

“An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.”

“I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.”

Source : Paul Engle (1996). “A Lucky American Childhood”, p.153, University of Iowa Press

“I think faith is the one common denominator between everything that goes on at the race track - a faith in Christ.”

Source : "A conversation with NASCAR analyst and former driver Kyle Petty (Part 2)". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. August 2011.

“I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.”

“Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low.”

Source : Robert Herrick (1856). “Hesperides Or The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick”, p.236

“I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.”

“Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way."”