Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn't mean we have to wash each other's feet every day, but we must help one another.

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.

Mothers with high ideals for child-rearing must pay the price for those ideals.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

I'm European, small, dainty - but I actually consider myself more of a tomboy.

Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.

I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life.

I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.

The basketball court for me, during a game, is the most peaceful place I can imagine. On the basketball court, I worry about nothing. When I'm out there, no one can bother me.

The more you know, the more you try to change them, and that can be disastrous.

I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.

Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.