The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy)

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.

Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. (from "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine")

Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.

Evil does not listen to reason.

The principle of tolerance and respect for freedom promoted by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council are today being manipulated and erroneously taken too far.

Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.

I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.

I love the music business very much.

The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.

Some people can handle fame, some can't.

I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.

No one can make fun of overweight people in front of me!

There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.