Where faith costs nothing, faith loses respect, even to those who possess it.

Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.

Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.

They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation.

The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that of consequence.

Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other, while at the same time, being utterly known by the other, thus utterly himself.

In Joy, to lose one’s life is to gain it, and Joy never loses an opportunity to be lost in the other.

They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief.

Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.

The payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product.

I want to get a tattoo of the word irony, only misspelled.

Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

Always be kinder than necessary.

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

Every birth is a getting to know.

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,' he said.

Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.

The truth for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn't, you should seek a deeper truth.