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.

We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.

A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.

No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, This is what is expected of you. But... I'm lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role... I love being with people.

Laughing is medicine for the soul.