Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

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.

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.

I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

LOVE is Leadership through Optimism, Value, and Endurance.

The only 'elephant' left in the room is love.

I couldn't forget. I couldn't break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.

Your clothing is the most important survival tool you have. Dress properly and any emergency you may have to endure becomes more manageable.

A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

We are educated. We can think. We have the freedom to think.