Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.

Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.

Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.

Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement.

Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don’t have to know everything about it; you just do it.

God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. Get cracking.

Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. Believing has to change the way we live.

Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach.

You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now.

If you're not a thorn in somebody's side, you aren't doing Christianity right.

It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

what is most personal is most universal

I got told I needed a producer I don't know how many times - maybe 27 times, 30? Then I recently got told 'I'm so proud of you.' That was even more great to hear.

We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our times.

Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.

The problem with guilt is that it cements you to the past.

There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing.

The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can have our accustomed veal or lamb or fried chicken or pork chop or hot dog.

Certainty becomes you.