If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

He who plants kindness gathers love.

The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.

It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.

We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.

There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.

To declare a thing is to possess it.

Every word is a prejudice.

I love food, and I'm a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.

Basketball, and the people I have met through the game have far and away had the largest impact on my life. Almost every positive role model I have ever had was a coach, mentor, or teammate.

I always feel that if you put me in a room with a director and a writer and let me talk about the script, I can give a good account of myself.

The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.

Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.