We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

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.

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.

We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.

If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.

If you focus on the ultimate goal, you will find strength to overcome the hurdles on the path to success

Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.

Men lie, women lie, numbers dont

There is a belief that love has its own justification, that it should be experienced as passionately as possible. The French have a wonderful expression, amour passion, which is the ultimate.

He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.

I record to my heart's content whatever I feel like.