There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.

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.

I always say, 'Books beat boredom, ' said Amanda wisely.

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.

I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing.

I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.

We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?