When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.

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

We want no revolution; we want the brotherhood of men. We want men to love one another. We want all men to have what is sufficient for their needs. And now - strange thought - the devil has so maneuvered that the people turn from Him because those who profess Him are clothed in soft raiment and sit at well-spread tables and deny the poor.

What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life.

We're living in an age of genocide. ...And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the genocide that took place with the extermination of the Jews, but the whole program....of birth control and abortion is another form of genocide.... [T]hey claim the poor are bringing forth tremendous numbers of children and so the solution is to kill them off.

The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.

The idea that when the health of one member suffers, the health of the whole body is lowered is a teaching of St Paul which is timeless.