To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.

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 God is creator of our life and our faith.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

We know everyone we love is going to die, but we don't know it, can't possibly believe it, she thought, or long ago I would have gone and started digging until I had a hole big enough to lie down in.

It's impossible to just localize your perceptions - because the stimuli come from both eyes.

Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.

No need to act, i let my fear show "He killed himself," i whispered. Eve raised an eyebrow. "Fourteen times?" "He had bad aim.

Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

I write about what I know, what I live, what I observe.