No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

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.

The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

Those who indulge themselves in sense stimulation throughout their lives often end up exhausted, with an enfeebled will and little capacity to love others.

Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart."J.L. Bond

I wonder if every genius has a touch of madness, does everyone that's normal have a touch or retardation?

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

I strongly support Roe v. Wade, which guarantees a constitutional right to a woman to make the most intimate, most difficult, in many cases, decisions about her health care that one can imagine.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.

What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?