If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.

Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

It began in images and it ended in symbolism.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.

The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.

I'm never afraid of research. I relish it!

My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.

I think I'm long past the days where I would go to the store and drop a couple hundred bucks on CDs, so my playlist is gonna be pretty long in the tooth.

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.

A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.