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"Your burden is not to clear your conscienceBut to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience."
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"What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others."

"Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?"

"It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life?Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?"

"You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn't concerns anyone."
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"If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you."


"A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good."


"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly."


"When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city ?Do you huddle close together because you love each other? What will you answer? "We all dwell togetherTo make money from each other? or "This is a community? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions."


"But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things."


"Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself."
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