The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.

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.

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?

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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.

The strongest memory is not as strong as the weakest ink.

Nobody comes to Minnesota to take their clothes off, at least as far as I know.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

I, like most people, came out to Hollywood to get into movies.

I'm healthier in California, probably a little happier, maybe.

A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.