I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.

If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?

The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

Well, I’ve been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow?

If free will means to do what you want, then it does not exist. Many of its staunchest proponents have met the wheel of fate without opposing it

Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, ‘We must know, we shall know!’, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.

Change must be measured from a known base line.

No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

I don't feel I need to come and drive the race of Lewis Hamilton's life. I think I've driven pretty well this year and I plan to drive Lewis Hamilton's best this weekend.

When security comes, every man for himself

Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

I wanted to help women and their families.