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

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.

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.

We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

The Lord is our hope.The Lord is our help.

Don't settle for being an option

Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

Out of adversity comes opportunity.

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.

Entrepreneurship is not a job, nor even a calling - but a hunger.

Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful.

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.