If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

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.

When you are positive you are the enabling force of possibility.

A bossy woman is someone to search out and celebrate. A bossy woman is someone who cares and commits and is a natural leader.

People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.

We are lucky to live in a world made up of so many different kinds of people and I am confident in the direction we are going.

Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.

There are places where it is easy to see, places of illumination, where one moves into illumined states of attention.

But an infinity of passions can be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a tiny space.

I have learned that everything is an opportunity for spiritual enrichment.

Communion is deeper than theology.

The most important thing is not that my short game looks good, but that it feels good, because at the end of the day, what you need is to feel it, and I'm starting to feel it.