Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

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.

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.

Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand.

War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

Politically, Donald Trump doesn't seem to care much about what he says. He gauges the effect. Sometimes, in the middle of a speech, he will change his direction if the audience doesn't like him.

All great progress takes place when two sciences come together, and when their resemblance proclaims itself, despite the apparent disparity of their substance.

All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.

A strong-willed child - a strong-willed child, more than anyone else, needs to learn to use emotion and discussion to resolve issues. That's the last child in the whole world you want to hit.

There isn't anyone who wants to see me married more than I do.

To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.