Quotes

“If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.” Henri Nouwen

“One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.” Henri Nouwen

“Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.” Henri Nouwen

“Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.” Henri Nouwen

“Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.” Henri Nouwen

“Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.” Henri Nouwen

“Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.” Henri Nouwen

“Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.” Henri Nouwen

“The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.” Henri Nouwen

“The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.” Henri Nouwen

“Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.” Carroll O Connor

“I'm lucky. Lord, I'm lucky.” Carroll O Connor

“Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.” Carroll O Connor

“Even a true artist does not always produce art.” Carroll O Connor

“I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.” Carroll O Connor

“All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.” Carroll O Connor

“It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.” Carroll O Connor

“Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.” Carroll O Connor

“Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.” Carroll O Connor

“Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.” Carroll O Connor

“Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.” Carroll O Connor

“Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.” Carroll O Connor

“I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.” Carroll O Connor

“I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.” Carroll O Connor

“I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.” Carroll O Connor

“In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.” Carroll O Connor

“It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.” Carroll O Connor

“Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.” Carroll O Connor

“My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?” Carroll O Connor

“My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.” Carroll O Connor