Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.

Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.

No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.

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.

Some can go further than others.

If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.

We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.