If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth; you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind.

Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.

For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.

Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.

Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.

Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.