My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.

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.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

Applaud my idiocy.

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change not destruction which takes place.

Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ recital to anyone who will listen.

The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.

I don't want to die. But I want to be dead.

If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can happen to you.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

There is no such thing as an appropriate joke. That's why it's a joke.

The media tries to do what they do. You can't stop. You gotta get money.