The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.

The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.

To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.

Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.

Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

Having faith does not mean having no difficulties, but having the strength to face them, knowing we are not alone.

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

Inequality is the root of social evil.

And after that, you don't feel the same toward the other person any longer.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

Today is a new day for the land.

The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as well.

If you are around a lot of human beings who are filled with jealousy and anger and rage and desire, it filters into the mind. Zen is writing a new program to run in the mind.

Real spirituality and love is always manifest. It always goes to those who are with us and around us.

one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started

Sunflowers are like people to me.

I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I even played with him. I think he's jiving baby.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.