In a world where there are no longer books we have almost all of us read, the movies we have almost all of us seen are perhaps the richest cultural bond we have. They go on haunting us for years the way our dreams go on haunting us. In a way they are our dreams. The best of them remind us of human truths that would not seem as true without them. They help to remind us that we are all of us humans together.

All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

Wherever people love each other and are true to each other and take risks for each other, God is with them and for them and they are doing God's will.

The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.

Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.

I don't know that it makes any difference whether it's at this time or a hundred years before or a hundred years later. I think always it's a matter of simply listen[ing] to what is going on around you and in your own experience. Try to understand what's happening, or if not to understand it, at least to appreciate the reality of it.