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

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.

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.

As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.

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

The theoretician of the Marxist revolution in Cuba certainly wasn't Castro. It was Don Carlos Rafaelo Rodriguez. He was the theoretician and very often people say he will take over. But I don't believe it. I think that it's a very good combination - the Catholic man working together with a man like that who has everything pretty well planned.