Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth.

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 are gentler and more graceful ways to interface with natural conflict.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

But believe me, there's a lot I'd like to say - but I don't think the time is right now.

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

Justice is having and doing what is one's own.

We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.

I have family members that are bipolar. One had a case recently that I witnessed, and it was very, very helpful.