I make sure to use my life for that which can be of goodwill. It has fortified me spiritually and emotionally

I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

Do as much as you can for as many as you can, every day. Even on the bad days, there's always something good you can do.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are not pro-life simply because we are warding off death. We are pro-life to the extent that we are men and women for others, all others; to the extent that no human flesh is a stranger to us; to the extent that we can touch the hand of another in love, to the extent that for us there are no "others.

Cultic worship is not only hypocritical but absolutely meaningless if it is not accompanied by love for other people; for in such a way it cannot possibly be a way of giving thanks to God.

We become neighbors when we are willing to cross the road for one another. (...) There is a lot of road crossing to do. We are all very busy in our own circles. We have our own people to go to and our own affairs to take care of. But if we could cross the road once in a while and pay attention to what is happening on the other side, we might indeed become neighbors.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

The city of Houston has treated me really good.