Religious freedom is a fundamental human right.

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.

I'm like a bridge. I can crash and crumble, or stand and support people. I've done both.

Chance is a word void of sense nothing can exist without a cause.

I'm a comic, so I like to stay nocturnal. I work 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

I really like to read when I'm eating - 'The New York Times' or the 'Wall Street Journal,' paper version.

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures.

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks.

How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!