the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

If you cannot see the fineness in my Hammer, you'd best look at him with better eyes.

Sometimes i's not about the win, it's about the experience.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

It's a rare business that doesn't have a way worse future than it has a past.

Whenever I go overseas I buy funny eyelashes. For example the same brand that are in Japan and England are different styles. So I bought both.

You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period.

The Universe in a Nutshell

Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.