Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

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.

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited.... There is no rightto strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to get us to see what is important in our lives.

If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

Common knowledge, but important nonetheless

Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.

Keep calm and carry on.