Dear young people, let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God!

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.

One should use common words to say uncommon things

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.

There's no solution except to break the power of Chiang Kai-shek by capturing Nanking. That is what I must do.

I am not scared of making mistakes.

I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though.

Success only hurts the first time.

If humor is not present, I tend to be concerned about the artist, or distrusting of what they're presenting - unless there is an obvious tragedy being talked about.

ISIS and radical Islamic terrorism will face no more determined foe than I will be.