Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology.

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.

Summer grasses, All that remainsOf soldiers' dreams

It occurred to me that the quiet in the suburbs had nothing to do with peace.

Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

Life lends itself to fear.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.

Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.

The hero is he who is immovably centered.

Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?

The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.