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

Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.

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?

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

People, wherever they are, can make a community.

Freedom has its roots in religion.

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