Holy Week is a privileged time when we are called to draw near to Jesus: friendship with him is shown in times of difficulty.

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.

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

It took him a while to figure out that gaining an audience was not the same thing as gaining friends.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

Dying is something else. Dying is different to good and bad.

If you know who you are, it makes you immune to criticism

Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destabilize their country.

You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.

Document, evaluate, focus, test.

Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships.

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.