Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.

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.

Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.

Do you know the sums that I do?” “I count my blessings.

...the wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is appropriate and profitable both for virtuous deeds and the mysteries of faith.

We have to show the world that not all of us are like him. Otherwise, this will always be Hitler's Germany.

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

Something really serious has shifted in the minds of Republicans and certainly others.

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

It's hard to nap on Saturday or the weekends.

Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.