The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

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.

It was hard to bear your soul while someone was talking to their friend about a new sweater they bought.

When I didn't have friends, I had books.

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do.

Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison

The power of art is the power of truth.

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.