We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?

The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

Well, I’ve been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

The Christmas memories you make this year will be the ones you remember in the years to come.

To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

You either pray or worry. Don't do both.

Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a whole series of books.

I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

I've been around so long that I might be in record books for being the longest, weirdest, most pathetic great player ever. Look t how precocious I am at 33.

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.