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.

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

We need to have an understanding that no matter how difficult the situation is, the victory is ours

Are you dying?"Cato lit his cigarette. "It's not acute, perhaps, but we're all dying, Harry.

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

The self is every person's true enemy.

anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

A lot of people let me down... A lot of people I thought were my friends turned on me.

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

Electronic music is innately tied to the technology used to create it - as the tools evolve, so will the art.

Once learned, the ability to disagree with a smile pays valuable dividends for a lifetime.

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.