Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

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.

The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.

Employers know the nature of people best.

Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its slither, it is gloriously onomatopoetic.

With every case from years ago there should be lessons learned.

Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.

Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.

Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.

Fire is the Sun unwinding from the tree's log.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.