I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

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.

Everything they've said is tainted now. Every day was a lie.

Rome was not built in a day.

We've got no fairytale ending, in God's hands our fate is complete. Your heaven's here in my heart, our love's this dust beneath my feet.

Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

...love is our true nature. When we do not express love in our words and actions it is like honey hidden in a rock.

I've heard of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. But I've never heard of Someday.

I have friends from rock stars to Rastas; I don't even know what an unexpected friend is.

Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.

Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum.