Sometimes we are saddened by the weight of our sins. May we not be discouraged. Christ has come to lift this burden and give us peace.

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.

Write what you feel like writing at first without worrying about how it sounds. That's what second drafts are for. Enjoy the first one!

Only those who dare truly live.

If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon.

Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students.

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.

You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen.

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.

This was the definition of eternity; it was the space of time devised by the Great God Om to ensure that everyone got the punishment that was due to them.