The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society.

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.

...[T]here are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating.

Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?

Don't go overboard with too many accessories and too many different things.

Images are really powerful. People fall in love with images, and as a way of falling in love with someone because they're like an image.

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

Songs lay a foundation of who I am going to be forever.

To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.

I would do almost anything Tina Fey asks me to do.

When we learn to TOLERATE boredom, we find out who we really are.

There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.