Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

My father had very little formal education.

The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?

Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is at!

I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.