Greed, however it manifests itself, is always ugly.

In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn’t take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing.

Don't make such decisions whose bad results make you look like you are your own enemy.

The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.

This is the trouble with origin hunting. There are so many origins.

I'm tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?

Reason deserves to be called a prophet for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present does it not tell us what the future will be?

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

I think if you're gonna run your mouth at somebody and they call you out on it - that's it!