"Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world."

“You cannot have a democracy without an informed people.”

Source : "Veteran White House Correspondent Helen Thomas On Bush and the State of the Media". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 8, 2004.

“Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.”

“If I could just touch the hem of His garment I know I'll be made whole”

Source : Song: Touch the Hem of His Garment, 2003

“We need to diversify our economy, and the energy industry would be a great place to begin that diversification.”

“He ran over a few people, nothing major. Mess runs over people. Sometimes, people don't get up. That's life.”

“I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.”

Source : "Books: The Hermit of Lambertville". "TIME" Magazine, September 2, 1957.

“Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.”

“I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.