Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.

The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

You may not be able to change the world for the better, but the world is able to change you for the worst, don't give them the rock you stand on.

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

I have come to accept that if I have a new haircut it is front page news. But having a picture of my foot on the front page of a national newspaper is a bit exceptional.

I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.

I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.

He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.