We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.

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 drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

The beauty of a meek spirit is precious to God

God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

I spot a fly floating on the surface of the water, its little legs pumping madly as it fights to keep itself afloat. I know that feeling.

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

Only stupid people don't change their minds.

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

I dream about having a house by the water and not doing anything, not feeling ambitious, nor having the need to make money.

I don't study; I create.