When I have a problem, I write it down and ask St Joseph to sleep on it

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.

Patience is seeing each step as a journey rather than seeing a journey as a thousand steps.

Just because The Past always hung there upon its hooks on the game-room wall, you didn't have to pull it down and use it on yourself.

The never-ending ache of love and sorrow.

To Jesus, "by faith alone" did not mean "by belief alone." To Jesus, faith was invariably linked to obedience.

Faith is the accepting of what God gives. Faith is the believing what God says. Faith is the trusting to what Jesus has done. Only do this and you are saved, as surely as you are alive!

I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things out.

Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

A team is a fist-not five fingers.

True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence.