There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.

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 is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but they aren't always willing to tell the interesting bits.

Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It's the United States.

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.

It's not called cocaine any more. It's now referred to as Crack Classic.

My job isn't to represent the Democrat Party or the Republican Party. It's to represent Hoosier families.

One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.