You are my cat, and I am your human.

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

We cannot change the history of the past.

I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.

We started out covering income inequality in the magazine [Mother Jones], but that ongoing body of work positioned - and sourced - us well to put both Occupy and the 47 percent in context.

Value inner attunement as much as you value outer attainment.

The hope in the hearts of millions of national socialists can be fulfilled only by an authoritarian government.

All I could think of was what a privilege it was to give my life away for love's sake.

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self.

A beach walk is for stretching your legs and your mind, for looking at life with newfound eyes.

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable