We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

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.

I wish for all of us the blindness of love that makes us see no faults in the other.

It angers me that a timed, planned and paid smearing campaign is run against me in the press.

We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.

Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

God does not accept weak, boring, halfhearted worship!

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.

About 70 percent of everything is really sketched out on my keyboard beforehand, because I do want accidents to happen in the studio.

Gypsies at home watching Jerry Falwell on TV, might mean something to you, it ain't nothing to me.

What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.