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.

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

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

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 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.

If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

I've been acting all along. I understand that I haven't been in people's viewers, but acting has never not been a part of my life, just more time in between and less high-profile.

I'm a very research-, homework-oriented person.

Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.

Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.

I wanna be with you, if only for a night to be the one who's in your arms to hold you tight. I wanna be with you, there's nothing left to say.

Everything happens for a reason. I believe in this at the highest level.

The whole world is simply nothing more than a flow chart for capital.

Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.