Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.

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 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.

Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration.

If we forget our story we were doomed to repeat it

It's not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there.

Don't ever be honest about who you are—and I mean that as a life rule, not just in this instance.

No empty words and gestures, but hands filled with hands, hands pointing the way, hands tracing new lines as age slowly creases its course from the corners of my eyes.

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I'm basically a silly guy.

I like doing accents. One of my friends works in hotel reservations and I'll ring her up and complain about the suite. Sometimes I get her.

Popularity can be a real headache.

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.