Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.

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.

All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders.

I will admit, it's so intoxicating working with Steve Carrell. Creatively and professionally.

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled, or dead?

I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.

Your absence weighs more than someone else’s presence

It's good to believe in yourself, but there are people out there who can make or break you.

Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.

Nah, that's not true.

The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.