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

The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

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.

There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.

Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so content. She lives in such a garment of silence, and it is as though she were listening to hear the stir of life within her. One always hears that stirring compared to the rustling of a bird in the hand. But the intentness which which one awaits such stirring is like nothing so much as a blanket of silence.

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

The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to me so human a philosophy.