Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.

Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect.

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

It seems the only thing that can rob you of your formidable powers of inquisition is the sight of me without a shirt on.

The world isn't built with a ramp.

A suffering person does not need a lecture—he needs a listener.

It feels so good making so much money when other people have to work for so much less but it is so much beautiful if humanity takes much from you, it is an investment into life.

Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own efforts.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

My theory: if the malls don't open until ten what's the point of being up earlier than that?

First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.

The most visible symbol in New York is the spirit of a free people.