A good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil.

You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.

The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.

To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.

Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.

Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

Having faith does not mean having no difficulties, but having the strength to face them, knowing we are not alone.

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

Inequality is the root of social evil.

Two things influence one's wisdom: remarkable experience and – evenmuch more – accumulated knowledge.

There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.

Above all Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings.

If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.

Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.

A house and a woman sute excellently.

Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.

It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt.