Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor.

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.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.

Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt throughout.

I became a Christian when I was a little six-year-old boy.

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.

You don't have the power to make rainbows or waterfalls, sunsets or roses, but you do have the power to bless people by your words and smiles You carry within you the power to make the world better.

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.