Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Love overcomes hate. Love has no color. Love has no orientation. All is love.

Certainly, you're not going to able to go and pull a Mark Mulder out of your hat somewhere.

Position yourself as a center of influence, the one who knows the movers and shakers. People will respond to that, and you'll soon become what you project.

In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.

I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.

If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

Do you know who I am? Why, have you forgotten?

I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.