“So, I explained to them that, as far as I was concerned, this didn’t involve any diminution in our commitment to the ANZUS relationship. But David Lange took it further and he barred visits of US nuclear warships to New Zealand.”

Without faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

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.

Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking