Please waste time just playing with your kids!

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.

It is no use setting priorities if you won’t stick to them.

You asked me to be an open book. As I've already told you, I am. Anything you need to know about me can be found. Don't confuse me, a paperback, with a book on tape.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.

The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.

All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.

Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.