If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.

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.

Body needs variable of time to be able to settle presence of soul in this three-dimensional space.

To care is our endless sense if duty.

The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul.

I will go anywhere, anytime, to meet with anyone to find common ground.

Hollywood has this incredible ability to make a lot of noise.

Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane

If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.

To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible.

You are what you think you eat.