The parts of my mind that apply logic and understanding had somehow abandoned me, and something primitive and instinctual took control.

We don't speak of it, or react to it. Paralyzed in a reality of uncertainty and madness, this is where we are.

It was Chelsea who captures our plummet before it reaches the deepest parts of our vulnerability.

I'm usually a bit awkward in houses that I haven't been to before, so it's a way to not look weird. If I find something I've read before it automatically makes me more comfortable.

Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.

We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine. You will never be safe whatever protections you put in place.

The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.

If I live for self, I can only live for one; if I live for others, I can live for 3,000,000,000.

Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

I didn't major in math. I majored in miracles, and I still believe in them, too.

I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.

[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.