Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.

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.

Whatever it is in life that is worth attaining, there must be something that is provoking an individual to go for that thing passionately.

Money will make you more of what you already are. If you're not a nice person, money's going to make you a despicable individual. If you're a good person, money's going to make you a better person.

I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.

And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.

We're in a crisis. We're in a crisis like I don't think America has ever known in my lifetime. But we have to keep joy in our lives, love in our lives, poetry in our lives, dancing in our lives.

The evil always comes from details.

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

Earth and heaven are in us

A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work.

Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.