The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.

You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.

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.

Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.

My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, "I love you. I care for you, enormously." And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.

I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

Why anyone would want to leave Everton is beyond me anyway. Even for Manchester United, Chelsea or anyone. This is the place to be.

What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!

Now there’s a sight you don’t see every day, huh? Two punked-out Goths throwing a Christmas party for sick children. (Doctor)

But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.

Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.