How things change, ’ I say, ‘how strange that, even when all is lost, we can still find beauty in simple things.

Excavating miracles was his calling.

I don’t know how to save the world, though I do know it involves a great deal of love and kindness.

You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light.

We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality.

With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.

A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

When you see a guy flying into the air on fire, that's not me, obviously. I do all the water tricks, though.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.