Just as we need the courage to be happy, we also need the courage to live simply.

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 the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.

After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.

You take romance - I'll take Jell-O.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

What we do is a wonder, an art, and we have a responsibility to do it well.

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

I'm one of those people that, when I read or get encapsulated by a world, I want to live and breathe and be there.

What we see is not always what exists.

What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it;nothing very bad could happen to you there.