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.

Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.

The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to me so human a philosophy.

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

A conversion is a lonely experience.

We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.