The true strength of the Christian is the power of truth and love, which leads to the renunciation of all violence. Faith and violence are incompatible.

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.

You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record.

Birthday is a sacred-life celebration.

I wanted the fairytale.

True love knows no boundaries.

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.

In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created.

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.