Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

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.

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

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.

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.- Jósef Piłsudski

When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting.

Starting at 16 years old I was in boardrooms of older executives pitching talk shows. I wanted to be the youngest talk show host for a really long time.

it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.

My path was to be an actor and it’s been very good to me in life. It’s broadened my horizons and given me a lot of gifts.

I wake up every day and I can't wait to go to work, and that's a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.

Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.