The future will be different if we make the present different.

If we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone crazy.

I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.

The world would become better off If people tried to become better. And people would become better If they stopped trying to become better off.

What we give to the poor for Christ's sake, is what we carry with us when we die.

The coat that hangs in your closet belongs to the poor.

The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.

It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil.

In statesmanship get formalities right never mind about the moralities.

Every Thursday or something, my mother would shoot it at NBC Studios at Rockefeller Center. And sometimes she would have me there when Morris The Cat was on, and Lassie was on.

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the pattern of other sciences.

I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.

I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.

Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies. Mercies are never so savoury as when they savour a Saviour.

To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.