One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.

Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect.

Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

There was so much – so many tests and tasks, so many tiny referenda.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

The city of Oia is the most magnificently romantic place I've ever been.

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

Vancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It's gray and rainy there a lot of the time, but for some reason, even though it's gray and rainy, I feel like it's a sunny day.

I don't have to edit myself. I get to be me, warts and all, and that's ultimately what people want, and to trust each other implicitly.

I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.

One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.

Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.