The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful.

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.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

I used to play bass for a while and got to the point where I was good enough to be in a shitty band.

It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.

Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.

If a woman smiles, her dress must also smile.

I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

Women's style is so hard for me. I just know what I think looks good.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.