The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system.

Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.

Not to decide is to decide.

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.

Every experience is worthy while.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.

When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning.

I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin 'em and I just beat 'em every time I can. I want to make 'em sharp.

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.

This society is not only to relieve the poor, but to save souls.

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.

We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.