Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.

The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain. For you are not in sound health when you enter.

God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.

Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower.

Effective love is rarely efficient.

Love will find a way against time itself.

Heaven is a homegrown cucumber

I also feel it usually takes four or five races to hit your best marathon for your body to be accustomed to the training AND the race itself.

I like to think Im a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.

Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

My job changes very little because I've found that the more you try to be funny, the less funny you become.

The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact with the very wellspring of grace.

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.