"Jesus cursed a living tree and it died; Mohammed blessed a dead tree and it lived."

“Flowers that bloom in the winter may not survive till spring.”

Source : FaceBook post by K.Hari Kumar from Dec 20, 2013

“It means a lot when people understand what I'm going for.”

Source : "InDepth InterView: Donna McKechnie - Part I". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2010.

“The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.”

“I don't know how much longer I can complain.”

“I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.”

“In the act of worship itself, the experience of liberation becomes a constituent of the community's being . . . It is the power of God's Spirit invading the lives of the people, "building them up where they are torn down and propping them up on every leaning side".”

“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.”

“I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'”