Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.

The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself.

War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.

The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.

If you dissent without breaking the law then you are legitimizing the system that allows this kind of latitude. You have to break the law to touch the state.

You have a responsibility to confront the war games - the American killing machine.

The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.

The only way you can get at the state is by dealing with its laws.

I will not apologise when the shape of my heart offends you.

If we treated others with the consideration that one would give to those who only had a few days to live, then we would be kinder, at least.

To be awake is the refreshness of being.

He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thought or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift.

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.

I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.

Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.