"Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man"

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary"

"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody"

"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect"

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead"

"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it"

"The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament"

"It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else"

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile"

"I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming"

"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being"