Every birth is a getting to know.

Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ!

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it.

Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

In the spirit of the Alpha and the Omega, in the way the Alpha was theOmega, and vice versa, he knew the beginning was also the end—and that the end was just another beginning.

And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see.

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.

God wants us to grow and achieve our potential.

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

The main problem with American power is not that it is American... No, the main problem with American power is the power itself. It would be dangerous even for an archangel to wield so much power.

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.