It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

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.

Achieving a goal is important, but what is more important is the distance that you have to travel with its ups and downs, fears and failures.

Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road.

Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing.

Life should be lived more from the heart than the head.

I have never met anyone who gave back a heart they stole.

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

The multitude of people fail because they talk failure.

If you are just yourself, that's when people start gravitating towards you because nobody else can be you except you. Be authentic, don't give up, and start today.