God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things.

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.

Dear past, I survived you. Dear present, I’m ready for you. Dear future, I’m coming for you.

Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.

Miracles do happen, but, not always the way you expect them

We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

They threw me off the haytruck about noon.

That loyalty to the country comes ahead of all other loyalties. And this is an absolute loyalty, since one cannot weight it in terms of what one receives.

We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.

Me? I slept like the dead, which I hoped wasn’t a sign of things to come.

It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.

There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.