Money has to serve, not to rule.

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.

They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.

There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

I got a strength coach. My wife. She gets big chains, and at night she puts them around the refrigerator. They are so strong, I can't break them.

Trust me. Sometimes God comes down and puts his hand on you if you're too big in your thoughts.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day.

Climate change isn't just an environmental issue; it's a technology, water, food, energy, population issue. None of this happens in a vacuum.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

No fool can be silent at a feast.