The challenge of life is to learn how to love

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.

Art is a process, not a product.

Memories demand attention, and these memories will have teeth.

If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan For we are born in others' pain And perish in our own.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.

I was a single mother when my child was little.

It's not a cry you can hear at night. It's not somebody who has seen the light. It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.

I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.

My hole is warm and full of light.