Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.

My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy

The thorne comes forth with the point forwards.

There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

This is probably as bad a day as the court has had on social issues since Roe vs. Wade.

Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.

There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.