"Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society."

"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm."

"Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow."

"Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners."

"I'd love to interview Bill Clinton. I know that might be a little boring, but he's so interesting and such an amazing guy. All he's done after his presidency... he hasn't just sat around, he's been so active in so many charitable causes."

"Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the ultima ratio [last resort]."

"We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure."

"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk."