The world will not change until we do

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.

The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, Ive wrestled with that very question myself.

Nature is increasingly the thematic focus of industrial heritage.

Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

Before a leader can be accepted, let alone succeed, autonomous professionals must agree to be influenced by that person.

Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years

It can get a bit boring working on accents.

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.

Kids look up to me. I'm not saying I make my music for kids, I do what I feel, its just a self reflection of how I am as a person and it relates to a lot of people.

I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.