The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.

Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

What happened to romance? sappy soppy longhand love letters.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem, " he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

Does childhood really happen? Do we imagine it? Everyone remembers something else....

The purpose of my work is not to educate people, rather it is to enrich human life with self-awareness.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

You can't be patient if you're not strong.