For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.

The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.

The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.

But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

One study found that people who just thought about watching their favorite movie actually raised their endorphin levels by 27 percent.

I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with.

Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.

For me, listening to my breath in between the lines, allows me to be in deep connection to my spirit.

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.

Perspective will come in retrospect.

Half of all home accidents happen in the kitchen, and the family has to eat them.