The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.

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.

Love one another. Love yourself. Then love will find you whole not half.

With diligence, discipline and determination you can fulfill the dream.

She marched to the door and said, "if I ever marry, Patrick O'Sullivan, I shall make sure that my mate for life is a decent woman, or even, maybe, a book.

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Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect.

When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.

There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons out of circulation.

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

Start with something messy, get to the point, get an editor, and make it good.

We won't know for a few years.