When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

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.

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story.

Based on my experience; I would develop fast speed before anything else. Get your young runners so they can run and teach them speed.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

It's never too late to get a new design, and if you wanna compete you gotta visualize.

Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.

One of the tricks of this business is, keep your losses down.