Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. (from "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine")

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.

The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy)

Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

With thousands of roads before us that lead nowhere, going in circles. There really are only two roads we will either travel, one going to heaven, or the other to hell.

If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.

Paramore is a family. Once youre in it, youre in it for life.

Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.

In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.

When you want something bad enough, you work your butt off for it.

Everyone holds a piece of the truth.

In the New Testament, Thomas Jefferson cut out everything that was mystical, magical, miracle - physically with scissors - and then pasted in all that remained, such as Jesus's Sermon on the Mount.

The art form is to become one with the hurdle, to make it your friend, and I embraced that process.