Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material.

Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.

The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.

The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.

Biblical spirituality means powerlessness, living without embellishment or pretense, free to be faithful in the gospel, and free from anxiety about effectiveness or similar illusions of success.

Reckon your weakness as praise of God’s power, endure suffering in joy, risk your life on the veracity of Christ, count your loneliness a means of grace.

Jesus became flesh to reveal God in His love and kindness

The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

You do these movies, you give it out to the world and you really have no idea how people are going to react to you.

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time".

The guys on the ground are the guys I care about. I've had the most satisfaction telling their stories. But when you're in combat with somebody, yes, a bond does grow.

I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.

Wine could become a place rather than a beverage.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.