"Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish."

“It's very important to make nuclear deals but you have to make them from strength, not from weakness.”

“Hillary Clinton was urging voters to make history, but a lot of voters, particularly women, had trouble with her history. And she was portraying herself as a feminist, as a glass ceiling breaker, but, in fact, in the eyes of many women, especially women closer to Hillary Clinton's own age, she had gotten where she was primarily on her husband's coattails.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world. The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway. We often do not see what we do not expect to see.”

“I treat politics kind of like my religion. It's something I believe in, but I don't want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.”

Source : "Jerry Springer Talks Politics, His Show, And Why He Thinks We’re No Better Than His Guests". Interview with Mallika Rao, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 1, 2011.

“I feel liberated, empowered, inspired and motivated. Fear holds you back from achieving what you want in life.”

“Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.”

“Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.”

Source : "Father John Misty's Fear Fun" by Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 23, 2012.

“I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.”