My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

We created not only to exist but to fulfill a sacred mission.

A joyful life, life of contentment.

We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.

I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.

you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street so I made up a song that wasn't true. I made up a song called Marriage.

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.

I like clean ladies and nice ladies.

Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.