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.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.

Force shites upon Reason's Back.

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.

I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

I just had a throwaway part, really, if you think about it. I'm not a natural actor, you know? I'm a comedian, through and through. And I really love my lines. Those are the lines I want to do.

I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever.

Spring was coming back with the old promise, demanding the old sacrifice.

What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.