The Holy Father has acted as the Vicar of Christ and acted like Christ himself, who never refused to talk to anyone.

Maria, groaning for scraps, would drape his head on my feet as I ate, trying to camouflage himself as my napkin or the rug.

First you put in, then you get out.

The black agenda, from Frederick Douglas to Ida B. Wells to Martin King, has always been the most broad, deep, inclusive, embracing agenda of the nation.

Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes.

Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies.

And by another year, Such as God knows, with freer air, More fruits and fairer flowers Will bear, While I droop here.

I refuse to be stereotyped.

One of the things you dont always realize when youre younger is that not everything you try is going to work.

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.