The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.

What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?

Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.

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.

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.