“I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.”

“I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human.”

“It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.”

“He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your soul shatter.”

“I believe this year, I can win the Cy Young, and besides that, we will win the World Series. I guarantee that. I have faith in that.”

“I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and touch another person. When this is done, I feel contact has been made.”

“You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul.”

“The universe doesn’t have secrets,” I said cynically, “only lies and swindles.”

“Every soul, touched by God, feels and believes in the depths of its being that it is more sinful than all men together.”

“One of the difficulties of being the good guys is that even open societies have to have secret police, and secret police turn toward repression as a compass points north.”