Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.

Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect.

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

Do not weep. Being is enough. There, that is all. I am done...

I love having the opportunity to surf.

We are all dead men on leave.

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.

That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

I love that you work out relationships with people as you're filming just to get something real to play on screen.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers.