To be wise use three languages: think well, feel well and do well. And to be wise allow yourselves to be surprised by the love of God. That will guarantee a good life.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies: It is enriched, not impoverished.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians.

Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations which God cannot change, there is no sin which he cannot forgive if only we open ourselves to him.

Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep.