Before I give you a blessing, I ask you for a favor: I want you to bless me.

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.

I am opposed to millionaires but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

It's important not to make the gold medal bigger than it is.

I'm personally very grateful to my many friends in the Greek-American community, sons and daughters of Greece who have found success in every walk of American life.

Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like Ebony and Jet magazines.

No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.

The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.

There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life.

I'd rather have two girls at 21 each than one girl at 42.

Tired with all these, for restful death I cry.