The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.

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.

The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. H. L. MENCKEN

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children.

Respect, brotherhood - the family comes first, and everything else falls in place after that.

I never made any money off of my records. It gave me the name across the country so that I could do some of the things in my personal appearances.

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.