It does not render justice to the victims, but rather fosters vengeance.

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.

If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you declare that your life does not belong to you, but has been created for the purpose of Another.

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

Twilight and evening bell And after that the dark.

If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.

Morality is not a spectator sport.