Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

People, wherever they are, can make a community.

Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life for the sick, the maimed, the leper. But there was another question in my mind. Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place? Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

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