Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

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 truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Both the liberal and the conservative are in agreement: it is all very well to let the people alone, but only if they do what you want them to do.

I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.

I understand Hitler... I sympathise with him a little bit.

I always say that I can play sort of six variations on one girl, all of whom are a variation on me. Maybe I'll think of myself as an actor if, like, I do a corset drama.

I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.