True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

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.

She wore a lot of gray-green corduroy. She had been under the impression that it brought out her eyes, those shy stars.

Don't wish, "said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...

If you look at my movie career, I do switch it up a lot. I'm always looking for a lot of different parts. It's been a while since I've been in a situation that was romantic.

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach

Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question.

It is wrong to say the U.S. should "not take sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

The best songs don't get recorded; the best recordings don't get released; and the best releases don't get played.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

To Harry Secombe: I hope you die first as I don't want you singing at my funeral.

For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.