The Church needs you, your enthusiasm, your creativity and the joy that is so characteristic of you.

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.

What people say about others' behavior or character is not always true, Just Proffer it to your best judgement.

Meditation is not to be on the surface of a thing or underneath it or above it, but it is to be in everywhere and to be in nowhere!

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

Are you afraid, Tessa?

Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.

Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.

It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.

Paranoid is what people who are trying to take advantage call you in an effort to get you to drop your guard.

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.