God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.

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.

Twilight ...Say, who you are !!The dusk before the nightOr the dawn before the light(Page 73)

Being joyful is about staying positive when everything else seems to fail.

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong.

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

There will be no hatred or resentment among them, their hearts will be as one, and they will glorify God, morning and evening.

I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.

Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.

It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.