[Pope Francis] has felt the mercy of God in his own life and wants to share that experience with others.

Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.

In the Church the transformative power of the Eucharist is experienced through the dignified celebration of Holy Mass, and people are empowered for mission because of that.

The Church offers the medicine of the divine mercy so that healed souls can grasp the truth that will liberate them in the fullest meaning of human freedom.

Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

The world needs a pastor, whether it knows it or not.

The papacy is an impossible job. So the best thing Catholics can do for the pope is to pray for him.

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.

In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

[Jesus Christ to Pope Francis] is the Lord with whom he speaks for hours every day in prayer. The Risen One who reached out, touched his life, and called him into mission.

The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.

There were many ways to lie without saying something that wasn't true. I was learning that the hard way.

When you caremfor everyone.you never can find peace on your mind...

There are only two things that are absolute realities love and knowledge and you can't escape them.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

I love motorcycles and riding bikes. Like a lot of riders, I look at a bike like it's an iron horse - a living thing that you have to build a relationship with - and that bike is my horse.

I do all my own stunts!

Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.

We are creators, just like the one who created us. And we are always expressing our creativity, with or without awareness.

Well, I don't have much competition here." "You don't have much competition anywhere.

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.