A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.

Everyone can be corrupted, even the great and the good.

Hockey is my life and money is money. If you think about money, you stop playing hockey.

You can't listen to all that language and filth without it affecting you

Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

I think it is rather 'unsexy' to go under the knife and modify your appearance.

Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a wife.

What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill comes out with bipartisan support.

It is not for you to judge the journey of another's soul. It is for you to decide who YOU are, not who another has been or has failed to be.