Nowadays are the world doesn't need words, but lives which cannot be explained except through faith & love for Christ's poor

To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society.

Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.

In life, have but one desire, one only--to love Jesus Christ with all your soul. Let that be the one fixed idea of your entire existence.

Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute final way.

I am so glad I was writing while on my last book tour, which was really meta, but I think a fascinating look inside the reality of what that whole madness is about.

The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

There's no ironic appreciation of things we love, even of things that are in fact ridiculous, which a hipster might take and own and show the world the humor in it.

A tiny hole can empty a great big bucket.

Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree When a hundred years are gone!

I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!

More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.

The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace.

Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself.