Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

Status: the perpetual carrot that entices us from the front and prods us in the back.

What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control -Mia

Sometimes at night, when I wake up real late, I can hear my dad talking to God. He whispers, but I still hear him. I even hear him crying sometimes, when God says something sad.

Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?

I just try to stay around the same people, stick around the same group.

Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.

A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.