Dear young people, listen within: Christ is knocking at the door of your heart.

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.

There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.

The mythology of freedom under capitalism for the average person is a con job.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way.

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?

Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.