When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.

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 some it is harder towrite a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.

It is wise for people to learn how to control their emotions instead of allowing it to overwhelm them and making them behaves irrational.

To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.

You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it.

Enjoy everything. Need nothing.

I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.

I think Hillary [Clinton] hears the anger in a broad swath of the American people, and she says, "OK, how do I help create a future that's good for you?"

This is true valor, I hope you know. Legends have sprung from less. All Lancelot did was paddle about in a balmy lake.” She smiled. “Lancelot was a knight. You’re a viscount. The bar is higher.

Our aim is not just an educated nation but an intelligent one