There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.

I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.

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

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.

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.

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.

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.