"I have chosen for my emblem a Star, representing the Virgin Mary, and the Eucharist. Those who know me as a professor of theology will remember my passion for the Eucharist from our classes. Blessed be God for this madness... We must live our commitment to society steeped in the Eucharist. We must take the Eucharist to the streets, both in the heart of the city and on the outskirts, to the poor neighborhoods and to hospitals... In order to obey the Resurrected Christ, I dare say with Pope John Paul II: 'Open wide the doors of your heart to the Holy Spirit.'"

“Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.”

“I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.”

Source : Donalyn Miller (2010). “The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons

“We cannot truly love God if we do not love our fellow travelers on this mortal journey.”

“What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.”

Source : "Investment Gurus: A Road Map to Wealth from the World's Best Money Managers" by Peter J. Tanous, (p. 267), 1999.

“I do have a very wonderful mentor, who helps me and reads my work and criticizes me, all the time. You've gotta have those people, who will tell you the truth and help you. You don't want anyone buttering you up. I want someone to tell me what I can fix. That's what I like.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather.”

“You don't have to go with the crowd.”

Source : "Alek Wek: 'You don't have to go with the crowd'". Interview with Sali Hughes, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2014.