So you say you love the poor? Name them.

If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.

The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.

If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the factories and slums, on the farms and in the mines, then my world changes.

Liberation from every form of exploitation, the possibility of a more human and dignified life, the creation of a new humankind - all pass through this struggle.

In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.

The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.

The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order.

Once causes are determined, then there is talk of "social injustice" and the privileged begin to resist.

[Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek.

Theology is reflection, a critical attitude. The commitment of love, of service, comes first. Theology follows; it is the second step.

Sometimes people think the old days were better than today. Even though life was simpler and slower, it was not necessarily easier.

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

When we pray, we pray according God's word which helps us to grow in faith.

Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.

My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

My wife has a black belt in shopping.

Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.