"I have four sons whom I love dearly. Suppose our lawn needed to be cut. I could say, "Boys, can you see the need? The grass is high. It's above my knees. Soon I will not be able to get to the garage. Don't you see the desperate need?" But in the final analysis, they get out the mower because their father says, "Mow the grass!" World evangelization is an imperative because Jesus said so."

“Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.”

“Good travel books are novels at heart.”

Source : Recalled by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the NewYorkTimes, 26 Jan1987, reviewing Raban's novel Coasting (1986).

“There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his right. It is his legal right, no matter how morally wrong he may be. It is his legal right, and no one can or dare question his exercise of that legal right.”

“It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.”

“Well, you know, for me, I think Spanish food is festive.”

Source : "Chef Jose Garces Follows His 'Latin Road Home'". "Talk Of The Nation" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. October 4, 2012.

“Face, to me, is a metaphor of sadness. And I want to share this sadness. I'm not really interested whether it's an Indian face or not - that's not as important for me. But it's still important to establish the relationships in order to bring about a consciousness of our fragility.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com

“The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.”

“The mind has to be empty to see clearly.”