No elderly person should be like an “exile” in our families. The elderly are a treasure for our society.

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.

The person following is never in control, which she knows full well and which is exactly why she does it.

Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

There are two days about which nobody should ever worry and these are yesterday and tomorrow.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

Life is just the time between crapping yourself.

The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.

Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.

Life is tough; thank God there's design.

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.