Please pray with me for everyone in Sri Lanka and the Philippines as I begin my trip.

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.

You never can grow unless you change. So fear the stagnation and embrace the change.

If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, 'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie.'

They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby!

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

Mathematics is a language

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

I can't imagine what someone would write that would infuriate me. Maybe if my loved one had died of some disease and someone was insensitive, that would piss me off.

The United States was attacked on 9/11/12, and we know who attacked us.

It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.