It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution.

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.

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are social beings, who are not content with just husband and family, but must have a community, a group, an exchange with others. A child is not enough. A husband and children, no matter how busy one may be kept by them, are not enough. Young and old, even in the busiest years of our lives, we women especially are victims of the long loneliness.

It is people who are important, not the masses.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.