Dear young friends, learn to pray every day: this is the way to know Jesus and invite him into your lives.

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.

If you say ‘we’re in this together, ’ I’m going to hurl.

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

In my dictionary, romance is not maudlin, treacly sentiment. It is a curry, spiced with excitement, and humour, and a healthy dollop of cynicism.

The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.

Make a difference. Live a life that matters.

Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.

We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.

Books wind into the heart.