Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

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.

Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness.

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

I dont walk around feeling like Im successful. I feel like I did well.

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves.

If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.

All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.

I am going to give from every corner of my soul.

I went through this difficult time [in the 1984] when we were making our third record where I kind of lost my mind. That's when the bulimia kicked in. And that's when I got really freaky.

The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't exist.