I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.

If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?

The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

Well, I’ve been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business.

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

My whole family has been such a great support, and theyre the ones who have kept me grounded and allowed me to be who I am today.

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!

I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.

I discovered the writing of Kirsty Eagar and was blown away. Everyone needs to read her now.

Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.

I'd rather be a victor than a victim.

My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger dating a singer, I can't decide which is worse.