If there is no humility, love remains blocked.

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.

Sometimes I fear the strength of Love.!

He is my unicorn, though... That's how I felt falling in love with him, as if I'd found a creature of myth.

You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?

You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years.

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

So rather than someone coming to my stu- dio and saying, like, "Thank you for your time. I'll see you later," and me not knowing why they don't like my work, I understand now why they don't like it.

When we exhale, a tree breathes in.

But everything is relative, Bertie... You, for instance, are my relative, and I am your relative.

Don't get depressed when you read the press about world revolution and social unrest. Try not to panic when you switch on the news and see crooked politicians and unemployment queues.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.