I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.

If the Kingdom of God is in you, you should leave a little bit of heaven wherever you go.

As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.

The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.

Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day; you are down the next day. A lot of the homeless brothers and sisters who were a success ten years ago, they are now on the street. Maybe ten years later they will be a success, but the crucial question is what is the quality of their life.