Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

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.

Studding the indigo sky were thousands and thousands of stars. On nights like this, you could almost feel the planet moving on its axis.

He said her name, repeatedly, so that she never lost the sound of his voice around it. So that every time someone called her name, she would be able to hear only Aman Erum.

It's wrong I think, morally and annoying in general, to try to get a kid to be a foodie, so I never even suggested, "Hey baby it's good, maybe you should try it." That never worked for me.

Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.

There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.

Well, I'm too old to pimp, and too young to die, so I'm just gonna keep playin'

Finding the hidden dimensions of your life is the way to fulfill your deepest hunger.

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers. And I become the other dreamers.