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.

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.

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 attention was a product on the market, a lot of people would spend their entire savings on it.

I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out.

There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it's going to spread.

And love was creation's source,creation's ruler; but all love's ways are strewn with blossoms and blood, blossoms and blood.

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.

In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.