The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism is more important.

I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and beautiful, and who are therefore aliens in this popular culture.

There are three kinds of people who run toward disaster, not away: cops, firemen and reporters.

At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.

Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth.

Don’t you understand that freedom depends upon the continuing possibility of rebel violence. When violence becomes unthinkable, freedom dies…

The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.

I have yet to meet a person who has not felt betrayed.

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

You belong in the scheme of the universe. There's nothing to be afraid of. You are Safe.

Power comes from the navel center. If you meditate for an hour or so a day and you focus on that sphere, you will release a tremendous power that will enter your body. We call it the chi.

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be.

How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!

If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one.