There was unusual unanimity on our pastoral responsibility to care for the immigrants in our midst no matter their country of origin or religious affiliation.

For better or worse, the United States enjoys the lion's share of public and media attention. We influence much of the conversation on social and public media by sheer volume.

While death and darkness girdle meI grope for immortality.

Whoever holds the keys to house of knowledge, must open the door, for those who search for light of knowledge to enter.

But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge.

The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.

Life is filled with difficult decisions, he thought. And winners are those who make them.

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.

I don't believe in God. ...I hope he doesn't hold that against me.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

We want someone to bring us the news.