Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.

Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. (from "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine")

The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy)

Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.

...maybe that's art. Seeing beauty others miss and capturing it.

We acquire insightful lessons of life in moments of failure than success.

The silence leans forward.

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.

The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger.

The Human heart is an idol factory.

I studied to be a chef as a side thing, a little hobby that I enjoyed doing, but I ended up falling madly in love with the food and the lifestyle.

Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.