Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope.

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.

Put on your lips success creeds every day. Never see yourself as an unworthy being, incapable of receiving good gifts from God.

Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.

The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

All created things are impermanent. Strive diligently.

Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.

In Los Angeles, individuality is very big, because people live in secluded bubbles. People don't walk around. They're very insular, and that allows for people to be whatever they want.

Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.

You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.

Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.