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

The Communists in Cuba didn't assist Castro in his revolution. They weren't on the side of the students. They didn't do anything to help in the invasion or the long-continuing struggle from the Oriente province down.

Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as Christ said. He went and sat down with the rich and Zachaeus and publicans and sinners.

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

Every Marxist group that I've known has its theoreticians.

As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.