Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

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.

Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.

Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head.

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others

The future goes in incredible speed!

Those who dare take risks shall fulfill their passions.

In America, anybody can be president.That's one of the risks you take.

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

Some songs, some nights won't do anything for you, but people enjoy them and that's the job. The magic is finding those places to stand in the song and gain perspective.

Also, bad quality causes big disruptions in my river system.

You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.