The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?

The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

Well, I’ve been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rudeAnd fled to the silence of sweet solitude.

Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.

I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

I'm sorry no one saved you.

I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before.

Ryanair brings lots of different cultures to the beaches of Spain, Greece and Italy, where they couple and copulate in the interests of pan-European peace.

Everyone knows the game is about the players.