The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system.

Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.

Not to decide is to decide.

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.

Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.

Sometimes when you're upset it's so easy to forget what's real and go for what makes you feel better. (131)

Roger’s wand made a crackling noise as he traced it around Winston’s arms, down his waist, and everywhere else.

... I learn from my mistakes, and falling for you was by far the worst mistake I’ve ever made.

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present.

When you are feeling down, look at the skies. You are not always alone.

Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.

Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.