Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

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.

Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one

A unique human trait is that we try to find meaning in the things that happen to us.

After a bad trip, don't carry your luggage on board the next flight. Stay grounded til you figure out a new way to travel.

I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

If you're in the so-called public eye you have to watch your P's and Q's.

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.