Let us pray for peace: peace in the world and in each of our hearts.

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.

Never be fooled by what you see. It's what you do not see that will kill you.

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

You invited him into bed?" Simon demanded, looking shaken. "Ridiculous, isn't it?" said Jace. "We would never have all fit.

Sign at a Tennessee highway: When this sign is under water, this road is impassable.

God made me the way that I am and it’s my business to be true to that.

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.