We all need to improve, to change for the better. Lent helps us fight against our faults.

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.

If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up.

Evil and I are old adversaries. When we compete I hate to lose, " Manny Bettencourt from Murder in the Pinelands

Stop comparing where currently stand to where others are, and start focusing on pushing yourself hard enough to consistently climb to greater heights.

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

I just think it's growth when you pursue something you're not sure you can do.

There's a lot of hate mail from readers. There's hate mail, threats, stalkers... I think that I'm bulletproof every week when I've turned something in. I think, I'm a god.

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

Lust weakens both body and mind.

Preparation clears a pathway for success.

Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing.