Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace, by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not holding on to it, by opening paths to dialogue and not by constructing new walls!

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.

It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.

Idle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it

You mustn't let your emotions get the better of you. There is a great deal to be angry about, but anger doesn't change things.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.

If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.

You don't really think about [career] much, because in a way it seems like another time and a different person.

I love to make people laugh, and do things that are surprising and different.

In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.