...sin is often the attempt to meet a legitimate need in an illegitimate way.

The ministry of bearing with one another is more than simply tolerating difficult people. It is also learning to hear God speak through them.

True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness.

...all of us are somewhere on a journey to God, and the gap between least and most advanced is infinitely smaller than the gap between the most advanced and God himself.

Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our 'appropriate smallness.

We are not the passive victim of others' opinions. Their opinions are powerless until we validate them.

To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

The Mets are gonna be amazing.

My problem is I’m peaceful, and I believe in the people.

Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.

I never worry about what they think about me. Because I feel so far away from what my Italian colleagues have done that I almost automatically become an isolated director.

The thing you are ripening toward is the fruit of your life. It will make you bright inside, no matter what you are outside. It is a shining thing.

Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was... If you can't accept losing, you can't win.