God is in the best, and also the worst. God is in the presence, and also in the absence. God is in the power, and also in the powerlessness.

Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.

There'll always be Christmas as long as a light Glows in the window to guide folks at night, As long as a star in the heavens above, Keeps shining down... there'll be Christmas and love.

This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?" "Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively.

In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and fully-formed literary efforts.

Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.

If you don't fight the system, you can either take advantage of the system or let the system take advantage of you.

After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.

I was born and raised Catholic.