I would like to say something just about the Mexican people. It is a population that has a wealth, such great wealth, a people that surprises.

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.

Perhaps just to have loved was enough - just to have seen this world, and known it, through the eyes of love.

Dare to dream.Dare to hope. Dare to live.

Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and reformers can never laugh.

Man's most serious activity is play.

As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place.