There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

Sometimes we don't notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.

Creativity goes beyond what you already know. What you know is just knowledge.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.

Sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. In times of severe distress, we tend to get tunnel vision and think this feeling will last forever. It will not.

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

You can taste a word.

I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!

A brush of kindness can paint a smile on a face.

God is near you, is with you, is inside you.

Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.