To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.

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.

All love is immortal.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear.

Life is short and evasive. This shortness and evasiveness of life is not predicated on numeric quantifiers, but embedded in the limitation on humans as mere mortals.

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.