"This is the way I look when I'm sober. It's enough to make a person drink, don't you say?"

“I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.”

“Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.”

“Let's have a merry journey, and shout about how light is good and dark is not. What we should do is not future ourselves so much. We should now ourselves. "Now thyself" is more important than "know thyself." Reason is what tells us to ignore the present and live in the future. So all we do is make plans. We think that somewhere there are going to be green pastures. It's crazy. Heaven is nothing but a grand, monumental instance of future. Listen, now is good. Now is wonderful.”

“Night is a curious child, wandering Between earth and sky, creeping In windows and doors, daubing The entire neighborhood With purple paint.”

Source : Frank Marshall Davis, John Edgar Tidwell (2002). “Black Moods: Collected Poems”, p.128, University of Illinois Press

“I very rarely want to go back and fix things, because I'm much more interested in the next thing, and in taking what I learned from the things that don't work, and applying them to new things that may work.”

“I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.”

“Just having an awareness of God's mercy and compassion for us is a great motivation for us to be merciful and compassionate to other people and to take steps toward encountering God.”

Source : "Father Jonathan Morris talks about working with Mel Gibson, Fox News, self-help books and running The Catholic Channel on SiriusXM". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. June 2012.

“I think Social Security should be bipartisan and it should transcend the next election, and you should get the best ideas of the Democrats and of the Republicans, and move forward with the best.”