Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.

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.

Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled.

I love getting a smile out of my girlfriend - that makes me feel like I'm seen, or heard.

Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.

A king should die standing.

Design really can be anything.

People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.

I think anybody who was ever saddened by a movie theater closing would be able to understand this film [Aquarius].

I enjoy comedy but it can become wearisome.

Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.

My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.