Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.

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.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

It is one of the great goals of my administration to invigorate the spirit of involvement and citizenship. We will encourage faith-based and community programs without changing their mission.

Heal the world! Stop the hate. Lend a helping hand to those in need.

Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite truthfully, 'as a rule not a single one'

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.