Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.

Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.

The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, Ive wrestled with that very question myself.

The world will not change until we do

Usually, if you think something's wrong, it probably is...

Forest is a dream where you may find yourself and dream is a forest where you may lose yourself!

Where you've been or haven't been does not make you who you are." -Faolan

Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.

Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don't have time to listen to other artists all that much.

The only one that can do what I do is me. Lot of people had to die for me to be me. You wanna be me?

Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all.