I became a Catholic against my will.

Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.

The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang their songs.

Values reflect what is important to the way you live and work.

If it seems perfect, you're being played with.

Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist

Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand.

God doesn't tell us to care for the less fortunate, He demands it.

Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.

You are not defined by an Instagram photo, by a 'Like,' by a comment. That does not define you.

I don't bring religion into the square.