Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

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.

In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.

You are consciousness within your body and mind

God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside--in the inner woman and her heart--and then works outward.

Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.

I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.