The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

You have to do something first and let God bless

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

Intuition is the soul within the soul.

I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

In this country, we not only have a right to vote, we have a right to know who we can vote for.

A hungry dog hunts best.

You can survive without a label... matter a fact, you're better off without one!

The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year.