Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that God has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Dear young people, do not be afraid of making decisive choices in life. Have faith; the Lord will not abandon you!

I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many, and not just young people, are unemployed, many times due to a purely economic conception of society, which seeks selfish profit, beyond the parameters of social justice.

This is God's way, the way of humility. It is the way of Jesus; there is no other. And there can be no humility without humiliation.

In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to the benefit of society as a whole.... I always thank the Lord in seeing mothers and fathers of large families, together with their children, committed to the life of the Church and of society.

God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities.