You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.

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.

Because when I kiss you, I want yours to be the first... and last lips I ever kiss.

Don't you see? The catastrophe is me. My very existence is an affront to everything that is natural and good.

We are born for the happiness. We are living for the happiness. To be happy we have to be morally free. To be morally free we have to treat the humanity with uncompromising sincerity.

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until it's over.

Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.

If one lights a fire for others, one will brighten one's own way.

Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.

Behind every bad law, a deep fear.