Not to decide is to decide.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system.

Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.

What's more, we had discovered that people have several times more potential for growth, when they invest energy in developing their strenghts instead of correcting their deficiencies.

I was an incurable romantic then, same as I am now. I was always pining away after somebody

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.

There's always been this strand of filmmaking in Britain which is like socialist neo-realism. That's always been there. I've never been part of that, really; I've been much closer to fantasy.

I now stop feeling guilty. I let myself out of that prison.

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.