I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travellers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry.

This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.

A 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.

Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.