To fly up to the sky and watch the earth is beautiful

I have drunk, and seen the spider."(Leontine, Act II Scene I)

Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.

Suffice it to say Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.

In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

The idea of directing a film is a strange one for me. I feel anti-mathematical, in a way, in that sense. I don't like when things make sense. I prefer if they don't.

As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

Jesus kept his wounds so that we would experience his mercy. This is our strength and our hope.

Renunciation is submission to time.