"On this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally ."

“I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.”

“My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.”

“Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.”

“When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing.”

Source : "American Spirituality: Tony Campolo and Russell Banks". Interview with Michael Carey, www.abc.net.au. July 19, 2000.

“In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned ill-suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God.”

“The Libertarian Party is a shameful party”

“There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.”

“There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws. But for its time, it was very politically courageous.”