Lord, teach us to step outside ourselves. Teach us to go out into the streets and manifest your love.

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.

Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.

A thousand time knocked down by life

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

I live as I choose or I will not live at all.

If you worry about anyone having a go at you for having ideas, we'd still all be living in caves.

Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments.

It's part of your job as an actor to put your personal problems behind you and work. Good actors can do that.

With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have the characters feel as much as possible like characters that you would know.

Nowhere on your birth certificate did it say life would be fair