Let us ask the Lord for this grace: that our hearts become free and filled with light, so that we can rejoice as children of God.

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.

Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.

If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

There's always a way you can get better. You can never be satisfied. You can never say, 'That's good enough'.

People do notice you but they behave normally if you behave normal.

You are only limited to what you push yourself to, you know? You can always get better.

I realize that acting is my job, and I have a life outside of my career to help keep me grounded. It is great to have a job you love!

You have to be responsible for the energy you're putting out into the world.

A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper.