“A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote

“A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.”

“Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.”

“And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.”

“Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.”

“I had fans, and the industry and everybody saying, 'Keep the Righteous Brothers going; keep the music alive,' and I really didn't want to do that. I had sung with a couple of guys who would supposedly be really good Bobby Hatfields, and I thought, 'Oh geez, it's really anti-climatic.'”

“I live and work for the pure enjoyment of being alive.”