Ambition is the intellectual equivalent of body odour.

Stand in nature before anyone else has woken and most people find something to believe in.

Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.

A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.

Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.

The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.

In the arts there are many right answers.

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

The heaven I witnessed was so pure, love-filled, and magnificent that I did not want to return to earth.

When I was five, I always told my mom I would want to be an actor.

I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven