“I’s taken me a great deal to get here. I don’t plan on missing anything.”

The great example, the killer example in history, is of course Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. Read his speeches. Read the debates. Wendell Phillips called him “the great slaver from Illinois.”

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public’s desire for him to be funny simply because he’s so good at it.

A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.

May Mary, who in the freedom of her ‘Fiat’ and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar

The only way to peace is forgiveness.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.

And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.

Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.

I’m not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn’t place myself on that footing. I wouldn’t even enter that arena.

[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.

Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe.

London is a fantastic creator of jobs – but many of these jobs are going to people who don’t originate in this country.

You fall off the horse and you get back on.

Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.

Poor people will do almost anything to avoid problems. They see a challenge and they run…the secret to success, my friends, is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than your problems.

I don’t have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there’s a lot of risk to it.

Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.

I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don’t mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.

Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.

I don’t know anything about baseball.