I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason.

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.