I don't live in the papal residence. I live in a simple apartment behind the Vatican gas station.

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.

There is no greater fulfillment as the pursuit of dreams.

MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.

I feel Motown really exploited me.

We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost – for support, not for illumination.

Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.

If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any.

The only food he has ever stolen has been down on a coffee table. He claims that he genuinely believed it to be a table meant for dogs.

Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools.

I'm no longer curious about things that will upset me.

I have cooked turkeys in my day but when Mom's around I let her do it.