Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

It is important never to relax, however far you have come.

We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.

I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.