The victims of problems of the family are the children. The children. Even of problems that neither husband nor wife have a say in.

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.

Yes it´s true, God is good, but not everything that seems to be good comes automatically from God.

As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.

Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?

I'm very lucky because I love fruit and to this day, that has saved me because I'd much rather have fruit than cookies.

I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

Learning a [skateboard] trick is kind of like a puzzle; you have to keep trying, and trying, and trying, and adapting and changing, and adapting and changing, and finally it works.

I feel that what was done in the dark will come to light. There are secrets everybody's gonna find out about.