Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.

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.

Cannot put a finger on what precedes the other, bachelor/spinsterhood or self-obsession.

A word was more valuable to them when they were not sure of its value. Since they became famous, their word has been more expensive but its value is less.

Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

You ain't ever gonna get an Academy Award for doing 'Crank,' and you certainly won't for doing all the other movies I've done.

The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.

The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare

In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.