Christ comes among us at Christmas: it is the perfect time for a personal encounter with the Lord.

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.

Art is a game. Poetry as well. At the end of the day, you either know how to play it or not.

When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country.

Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.

I think more than anything, that's when I decided politics was on.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.

If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

But you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive.

Balance is the key to a beautifully made-up face.