I've had the privilege of working with Bono for the past few years in the One Campaign to fight AIDS and hunger and disease around the world. Bono is an Irishman and a great humanitarian. And I remember him telling me of his admiration for America.

We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people.

Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

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

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, things arenÃ

My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.