It's not going to be easy to change things.

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.

There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to the grocery store and buying a loaf of bread.

We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.

I think that you're always going to have some people who are negative or view you in a certain way.

Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.

The truth was, it was myself I couldn't trust, my eyes from betraying my heart.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]

When the natural gas industry was knocking on my door, they were knocking on the door of millions of people. And that became something that Americans really needed to focus on.

I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel.