An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

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.

I am happy.I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve.I am happy.

It's actually such a tragedy that I live in a world that is inspired by me putting my body or mental state on the line

The two grappled in the quiet of old-fashioned personal diplomacy.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Positive feedback makes the strong grow stronger and the weak grow weaker.

Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.

Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.

My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

In the Seventies I was so scared I wouldn't go on stage.

You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.