Today there is no greater force in the molding of the North American mind than the invasion of the imagination by the visual media.

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but it the mirror will not wash your face.

I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God's call without a devout prayer life. That is where God speaks.

I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge

The old Indian proverb holds true. Once you've cut off a person's nose, there's no point in giving him a rose to smell.

The visual can seduce you, leading to false deductions, and ultimately, even the finest ideas can be reduced. Take for example, sexuality. If it is reduced down to the moment and to pleasure, things like that, that's not what sexuality is all about. Sexuality was to be in tandem with the sacred, not amputated from it.