If you can't keep your hands off your girlfriend, then keep your hands off of God's daughter.

Prayer is not just something on our to-do list; it's the breath of our soul.

All the other covenants show God’s love and transmit God’s love, but it is only in the marital covenant that the love is so real and powerful that it communicates life.

Whether we are poor or rich or somewhere in between, we honor the Lord with all he has placed in our care. We open our hands to the poor and share the joy of generous Christian giving.

The past has passed; the time for grace is now! Let's respond to the grace of this moment with the gifts of the Spirit active in our lives.

Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.

I'm interested in pressure, I'm interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them.

Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.

Dinah had all the class.

I think that the Middle East is the largest piece of unfinished business that we all have. I happen to believe in the democratization process.

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.

It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.

The more you know, the sadder you get.

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.