Everything a baptized person does every 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.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

A distinctive appearance and a simple set of characteristics lead to an extremely flexible brand. (pg. 38)

As you emphasize your life you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

Howdy. I'm gonna separate your head from your shoulders. Hope you don't mind none.

We are optimists, until we are not.

No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.

It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.

No matter what system the magician chooses, in order to make it work most effectively he or she must first become attuned to that system's particular way of viewing of the universe.

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?

The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.