the centre is missing, but we cannot stop searching for it or positing it. It is not that there is nothing there - it is that what is there is not capable of exercising responsibility

Giving and receiving is the law of life. When we give with love and accept with deepest gratitude, our souls rejoice.

A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us.

If you're a parent, the five worst words you can say to your children are, "When I was your age ..." You were never their age. You were older in the womb.

They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

This fight against drilling in the Arctic Refuge is a fight about our principles. Its about standing up for our environment, our families and our future, and I wont give up this fight.

Best thing about Al Smith dinner: Cardinal Dolan got the candidates together for a brief prayer before going out on the stage.

If you beat the Man, who was the Man, then you're the Man.