Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience...to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness.

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.

All must pay the debt of nature.

The life I've livedWhat more can one ask forApart from a grand exitSlit of the wristTotal bliss

She’d never seen such a thing back on Grave

It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.

Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, what a player! Top class and a great role model for any young English midfield player!

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

The Gift belongs to whoever chooses to accept it. It is enough to believe and not to be afraid to make a few mistakes.

Love is an act of courage.

Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.