Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity. Don’t be afraid to aim high.

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.

A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never.

To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment.

Thanks, but that's not going to fix anything. It's like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.

Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered.

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

You cannot have a happy ending to a miserable journey.

I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents.

From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!

Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.