My father had very little formal education.

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.

A problem-free life does not exist. If your life has no problems, you are not truly alive, and that’s a Big problem!

Your past is handing you a tool you can use to leap into your future: the crucible moments from your own life. The power you need is in looking back to look forward.

i am not strong or weak i am exactly what the situation requires(versatile)

Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Recycle your pain, allow your pain to reach you to greatness.

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

Now Peter said by exceeding great and precious promises you become partakers of the divine class. All right, are we gods? We are a class of gods!

I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.

I'm attracted to Ferraris and Bentleys, but I don't know if I'll ever have a chance to own one of those.

Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal?