All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.