These powerless people at the bottom are the ones with whom we must begin. They must have the insight and the knowledge to work together and recognise that they are on the right track.

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.

Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful.

Sandgorse chose his own destiny. Why should he get to choose yours, too?

Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

I once got sacked for laughing ... mind you, I was driving a hearse at the time.

I'm very outgoing and social.

Davis fouls out to third in fair territory.

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

I got the total package, you know, the curves, the rhythm, and the voice. I'm just the best.

I wanted to go everywhere. I would have started on a day's notice for the North Pole or the South, to the jungle or the desert. It made not the slightest difference to me.