Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met...I can say that the most beautiful and natural expressions of joy which I have seen in my life were in poor people who had little to hold on to.

Charity that does not change the situation of the poor isn't enough.

When you lose the capacity to dream, you lose the capacity to love, and the energy to love is lost.

Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter.

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

It means caring for one another in our families: husbands and wives first protect one another, and then, as parents, they care for their children, and children themselves, in time, protect their parents.

Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience...to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness.