If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.

I want to throw open the windows of the Church so that we can see out and the people can see in.

Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.

Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.

What unites us, is much greater than what divides us.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Never Hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.

I live by the mercy of Jesus, to whom I owe everything and from whom I expect everything.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Daily prayer, daily grace.

It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep.

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.

In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.

I'm very active in pushing for net neutrality and an open Internet. There are countless other causes I support personally and privately, but I try to keep my public activism fairly focused.

The law is what I can get away with and stay out of jail.

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund.