Dear parents, teach your children to pray. Pray with them.

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.

And he wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror.

As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.

The thing I can't resist is a pork pie. That's my idea of a lovely treat.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

I'm not shaving for a month so you all can see my mustache... I'm pumped!

Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.

There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it.

Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.