Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.

As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.

If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.

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

What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.