With Christ as the center of your life, you will never be disappointed.

We need to provide an education which teaches crit­ical thinking and encourages the development of mature moral values.

Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.

Before I give you a blessing, I ask you for a favor: I want you to bless me.

I don't live in the papal residence. I live in a simple apartment behind the Vatican gas station.

From the peak of Chimborazo (volcano) to the Pacific coast, from the Amazon rainforest to the Galapagos Islands, may you never lose the ability to thank God for what he has done and is doing for you, may you never lose the ability to protect what is small and simple, to care for your children and your elderly, to have confidence in the young, and to be constantly struck by the nobility of your people and the singular beauty of your country.

Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the certainty that God never abandons us.