“I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No. I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.”

“"You love God, don't you?" Nicholson asked, with a little excess of quietness. "Isn't that your forte, so to speak? From what I heard on that tape and from what Al Babcock —" "Yes, sure, I love Him. But I don't love Him sentimentally. He never said anybody had to love Him sentimentally," Teddy said. "If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable."”

“I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.”

“He is making money but I am earning love. His money will get spent, but the respect and love that I get will remain for him when I leave. I only hope he keeps it up. Somewhere he will take care of my respect and love.”

“You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do for
love.

Myrnin.”

“I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love…I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
Nondum amabam, et amare amabam...quaerebam quid amarem, amans amare.

“I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.”

“When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.”

“If people didn't give a damn, I wouldn't be in the position I'm in. I try not to lose sight of that.”

“Some have too much, yet still do crave;
I little have, and seek no more:
They are but poor, though much they have,
And I am rich with little store:
They poor, I rich; they beg, I give;
They lack, I have; they pine, I live.”