Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

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

We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

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

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

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.