To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them.

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.

Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

The war has ruined us for everything.

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

If you want to live like a Republican, you've got to vote for a Democrat.

Anyone who willfully and maliciously attacks another without sufficient cause jeopardize the lives of others.

There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.

Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

I wish that a conscious sense of peace and a feeling of human solidarity would develop in all peoples.

I don't like to go to premieres or openings. I don't like to have to put on makeup.