It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself.

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.

You must not give up in the middle of the journey. May you have grace to travel onward.

If I see darkness in the Church I bring light to it.

You set goals in order to become the person it takes to achieve them

If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other part of our lives, including our political views.

Well, human security is a concept that I am very committed to enshrining in American foreign policy.

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

A friend told me to listen to my heart. Another friend told me to listen to my gut. Maybe I need an autopsy, because right now my colon is kind of iffy.

You've been quiet lately...but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.