The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

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.

There isn’t a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his own children!

I think in our desire to create a better America, we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.

Asparagus is in season.

A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.

I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

What is necessary for the pubic realm is to shield it from the private interests which have intruded upon it in the most brutal and aggressive form.