And many of the people who buy or found banks have had no experience in banking at all. If they can learn it, so can we.

You can look at a slum or a peasant village, but it is only by entering into the world - by living in it -that you begin to understand what it is like to be powerless, to be like Christ.

At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich.

Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.

Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own Gods, they never assimilated the ideas of Christianity.

In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal supermarkets for the sacraments.

It's not that we don't care--it's just that that we'd prefer not to get involved.

In ocean of tears, the heart of stone sinks. (Dans l'océan de larmes, - Le coeur de pierre donc coule.)

And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart.

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

I did things like get in a cupboard before the teacher came in at the beginning of a lesson, and then, two minutes before the end of the class, I come out of the cupboard and go, 'Sorry I'm late.'

Freedom has no history.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.

Take life seriously but none of the people in it.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

Life is a festival only to the wise.