To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.

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.

Soil, blood, seed- Let me draw strength from you. let it be enough.

You love who you love and that’s who you love.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed

I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.

Music is the only art that actually lives.

The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision.

I'm not sure who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish.

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.

You have to first believe in what you are, in what you can do, in what you say before you can make anybody believe in you.