Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.

The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.

We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.

We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet.

Beyond miracles, what has lasting significance is love. It wasn’t that Jesus healed a leper, but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.

Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.

I have dedicated my life to a doomed struggle against reality and the things that cannot be otherwise

There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone.

It's very good to know when you're being lapped on the racetrack, 'cause you've got to put your foot down on the pedal and get going.

I always felt like I sucked at everything, that I could never find the thing that I liked. I auditioned and I probably sucked, but I had decided 100 percent that this is what I wanted to do.

I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.

And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm, through this brief moment of eternity. Who could ask for more?

Bad friends could ruin your whole life. Be wise when it comes to choosing your friends. You set the standard. You be the one who stands strong. Don't be a follower.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.