One time when I was visiting The Vatican I got the Pope really drunk, and then while he was sleeping I put his hand in the holy water.

The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.

One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. .

Refuse to be average.

I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.

Sometimes I don't like people. And, you know, it doesn't bother me. The hard ones are when you really like somebody, really respect somebody and they make a mistake.

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

If people are going to hate me, I want them to hate me for the right reasons

By pursuing any one of our dreams, we can find fulfillment. We don't need to pursue them all.