All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity

A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

God, through Jesus Christ, welcomes you anyhow.

The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.

To give the whole store away to match what this year's market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression.

The planet is finished with us, at this point -

In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.

Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.

It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.

I always do big birthday things. In three years, I'm 70. I'm going to do something outrageous. In America, everyone's always hiding their age.

On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)

We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.

Believe me, lady, my strength is the one thing I never doubt. (Vane) It’s amazing the lies we tell other people, isn’t it? (Sunshine's grandmother)