Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.

If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

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

Well, I’ve been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

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.