A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.

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 choices in the now are the choices of all your tomorrows combined

They're looking for guys like us, he says, young and hungry, not done yet. I say I'm not hungry, Rick, all I am is angry. He says that'll do just fine.

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

People want to see the car crash instead of the race. But, when you're the one in the car that's crashing, it's not much fun. I'm enjoying the race.

To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.

He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.

Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy.