An authentic faith-which is never comfortable or completely personal-always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.

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.

You will always end up in frustration whenever you try to produce outside your purpose.

The traditional techniques used in getting sleep aren’t much effective any longer and our sleep techniques need to evolve as rapidly as our life style has, in order to cope with it.

For every thinking and reflecting man the existence of evil is a riddle he cannot escape.

You can't change who you are, can you? That would require changing the people who made you along the way. That would mean discrediting everything they ever gave you.

It's never better to make somebody poorer, even if they're rich.

If you want to be on top, you've got to have broad shoulders, because as fast as you get there, the faster they try to knock you down.

You can have a striker who scores 50 goals in one season but if you win nothing it means nothing.

If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.

If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.

I love playing a curmudgeon. I just love playing a sour guy.