It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!

We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves.

I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not say is unique, but it has a force, a culture, a history that cannot be wasted, and we must do everything so that the European Union has the strength and also the inspiration to make it go forward.

We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.

An authentic faith-which is never comfortable or completely personal-always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.

A Christian who is not a revolutionary today isn't a Christian

The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.