Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

I think anarchy is natural to the Catholic. The Church is pretty anarchistic, you know. Who pays attention to the Pope or the Cardinals?

Two years ago, I was saying as I planted seeds in the garden, "I must believe in these seeds, that they fall into the earth and grow into flowers and radishes and beans." It is a miracle to me because I do not understand it. The very fact that they use glib technical phrases does not make it any less a miracle, and a miracle we all accept. Then why not accept God's miracles?

We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us. When we begin to take the lowest places, to wash the feet of others, to love our brothers with that burning love, that passion which led to the cross, then we can truly say, 'Now I have begun'.

If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.

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