Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

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.

exaggeration is the octopus of the English language

Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.

Never do an enemy a small injury.

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

Rather than assume that the wealthy are a monolithic, selfish and unfeeling lot who must be subjugated by the force of the state, set a tone that encourages people of good will to meet in the middle.

I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

Instead of spending money, I earned it.

I daydream all the time, and I like that quality.