Creativity is the supreme mystery of life, the mystery of the appearance of something new, hitherto unknown, derived from nothing, proceeding from nothing, born of nothing other.

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.

Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.

The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom.

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.

Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.

Observing people. A spark of idea for a story sometimes comes from the simple act of observation.

The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.

It is not wrong to think that the traditional buying of a product has been replaced with an unwritten contract of shared values between a business and its customers.

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

You know what? I did! I impressed myself just making it.

Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to.' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling.

If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and errors.

There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky.

Animals can't really voice their opinion. We feel as though we can be on of the spokespeople on their behalf.