We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it.

The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

The church must constantly promote dialogue.

In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.

We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.

You suffer because you try to fulfill yourself. You think of yourself in a limited way.

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces

Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.