Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?

The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

Well, I’ve been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?

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Fairness is not about statistical equality.

I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

The only right stewardship is that which is tested by the rule of love.

I have not come to praise Caesar, but to bury him.

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.