The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

In today’s world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.

Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Like backstage, I just peed like every 3 seconds. I think yur staff thinks I have diarrhea.

If we ruled the world, I guarantee you they never would have cancelled Firefly

Your happy destiny is unavoidable. You cannot be "saved." There is no hell except not knowing this.

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

Everything I show you is the truth-And the truth is the loveliest of lies.