Eriugena and other Celtic teachers speak of Christ as our memory, as the one who leads us to our deepest identity, as the one who remembers the song of our beginnings….

I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.

Politics is shit

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

For excellent health and a good skin color, I recommend that people sit next to a shady ultraviolet transmitting window when indoors.

There was never a saint with red hair.

You say something bad about Newsies and you have an awful lot of people to answer to.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you'll project: 'I look like a fool.'