It is not possible to go backwards. We must go forward. Always forward.

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.

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.

Walls don't fall without effort.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with something very cold and very sharp.

It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

Telling someone who’s crying not to cry is the same as telling someone who’s falling not to fall.