If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect.

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.

Power came the way a child came -- with agony.

I’ve never been bothered with my conduct. I’ve only been bothered by people that don’t get it correct when they gossip about me.

One of the best ways to attract capital is to outperform the competition.

At the sight of Day, her whole face lit up. "Mikhail! You came! Barbara said you would, but that we might have to wait for hell to freeze over first. Did it?

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

"Equestrian", by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called Two Equestrians.

A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

The work is not simply about an occupation .. but why you are here.