Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.

The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom.

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.

Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.

Creativity is the supreme mystery of life, the mystery of the appearance of something new, hitherto unknown, derived from nothing, proceeding from nothing, born of nothing other.

Let happiness bloom. In the caring love, In the softness of your tender voice, In the nonjudgmental love, In the beauty and pureness of a smile.

What is the city but the people?

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

I try to make all of my roles likeable in some way.

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

No one person leads alone - can't do it, it's impossible. It doesn't make any sense. You need a team.

This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it as you possibly can, so everything's worth it.