The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

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.

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

Enough is not in the volume of money owned or size of one’s account. It is in the needs that can be consistently met without having to work for money anymore

We all make mistakes. It is in our human nature. It just happens, it's nature's way to keep life interesting.

Ambition’ is ‘greed’ rebranded.

In an ideal world, I'd be able to do my shows in my pajamas. Luckily I've got one of the best stylists in the business, Rebecca Allen - she knows what looks good on camera and gives it a sexy kick.

The sofa is the enemy of productivity.

But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.

The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.

In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.

I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.