Women think with their whole bodies

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.

We certainly can try to grow in love, and it is good practice, this giving what we've got, whether it is a cup of coffee or money to pay the grocery bill.

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

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.