No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.

My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.

Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. And each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that.

If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege.

I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.

This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

The Palestinian state is within our grasp. Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem.