Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others.

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 pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence...

It's a lot like the Wild West out here... just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is.

The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

A jerk on a motorcycle is equal to a leaf, because I find it beautiful when these things fall.

It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.

Those who are late will be punished by life itself.

My favorite business book of all time is experience.

My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.

It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.