Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

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.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Cheer up everyone, " he said, a new brightness to his voice. "Since we’re all going to die horribly anyway, what’s there to be worried about?

If life is a prison, then death is the ultimate freedom.

My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.

And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?