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.

There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.

People, wherever they are, can make a community.

True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some flavor of this in all our love for others. We are all one. We are one flesh in the Mystical Body as man and woman are said to be one flesh in marriage. With such a love one would see all things new; we would begin to see people as they really are, as God sees them.

Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.

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