If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done. Sow time with the poor. Sit and listen to them, give them your time lavishly. You will reap time a hundredfold.

People, wherever they are, can make a community.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do.

The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'

Castro wasn't a Marxist. He was a Catholic educated by the Christian Brothers and the Jesuits. But fundamentally, I'm not talking about practising Catholics, but rather about something which is inbred; that is, a part of your country, your heritage, your life.