Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

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.

I take the fan response very seriously and respond personally to my fan mail.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

For all the injustices in our past and our present, we have to believe that in the free exchange of ideas, justice will prevail over injustice, tolerance over intolerance and progress over reaction.

How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'

In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee

Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

I'm a boots girl. I always wear boots. They only look better when they get dirty.