Who we are looking for is who is looking.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!

God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.

All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.

What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

Apart from childhood and crisis, prayers have a way of being abstracted from the homely and distinctive details that are part and parcel of our ordinary and daily life.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when don't want them to.

You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don't try.

When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up

Be deeply satisfied and ready for more.

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's cave

Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.

I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused.

I think it's a tragedy that our schools don't teach kids about money. I think it's a tragedy that it has to come to an emergency before we evolve.