I like it when someone tells me: 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.

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.

Yet 'Reality' is just whatever illusion we believe in

It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.

The only question left to be settled now is are women persons?

Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

It's not facts that hurt people, it's their attitude towards facts.

Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!" “But no living man am I!

I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long.

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over.