Man is not meant to live alone.

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.

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.

No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.

The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.

Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.

We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.