If sadness comes to you one day with an invitation, tell it you are committed to joy and will be faithful to it your whole life long.

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.

Sometimes you have to take a shot in the dark to discover the light.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

She's the original good time who was had by all.

We're a superpower with a third world grid.

Nothing is too much trouble for Love.

And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb.

Problems are gifts from heaven to help every one of us to grow but for those who are to grow the most, heaven bestows rejection.

Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.