I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

You just have to do what you know is right.

No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.