If we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone crazy.

I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.

The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.

The coat that hangs in your closet belongs to the poor.

What we give to the poor for Christ's sake, is what we carry with us when we die.

The future will be different if we make the present different.

In the first centuries of Christianity the hungry were fed at a personal sacrifice, the naked were clothed at a personal sacrifice, the homeless were sheltered at a personal sacrifice... And the pagans used to say about the Christians, "See how they love each other." In our own day the poor are no longer fed, clothed, and sheltered at a personal sacrifice, but at the expense of the taxpayers. And because of this the pagans say about the Christians, "See how they pass the buck."