Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

Pixar is going in the direction of the early Disney. And it's also corporate, where they have four or five projects in the works. I don't want to get into that subject.

What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.

I don't think I have ever tried to create things to encourage people to hurt others, or themselves.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people.