I allow myself to honor the man who fought in moments when he had no strength to impose himself, until he managed to impose himself. [Joseph] Ratzinger. Cardinal Ratzinger deserves applause.

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 don't ridicule religion, it ridicules itself.

Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

I chose Journalism by default. I always loved TV, and I had no idea what else to do, so I studied what interested me.

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors

I started going gray in my early twenties.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most influential woman in Washington - for what she has accomplished and for what she may yet do: win the presidency.

You've no future unless you add value, create projects.

I am running for governor of Kentucky as the people's advocate.