An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick.

Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.

Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.

As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

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

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.