Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.

The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world.

If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own.

The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.

Faith is the new, the mysterious, the surprising. Nobody has ever been there before.

Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

To forgive is not to forget, but rather to re-member whatever has been dismembered.

God reveals herself through our relationships not only to other people but also to other creatures and nature.

Lovers re-create the world.

Her voice had suddenly jumped a couple of social classes to underline her ownership status.

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car.

Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!

I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker.

Leadership is not about popularity, it is about doing what is right.

In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth.

I'm very sunny. You know, I'm always optimistic.

On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.