The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.

Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. (from "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine")

The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy)

Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering

The wise man knows without traveling.

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

Boxing is so loose and flowy, and martial arts is more stiff, and about strength and structure.

Don't follow me, I'm lost.

There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.

The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.