Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.

Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

Turn your car into a monastery.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.

We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.

The weather in this land was quite unruly, and if you couldn't appreciate the many shades of gray, you had no business living in it. Alden Garrat Warrior Heart

Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down.

If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed!

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production.

I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding the important bridge between church and state.

People spend all their time focused on things they can't control. In truth, there are only two things you can control: your attitude and your work ethic.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.

If you're lucky enough to have something that makes you different, don't ever change.