Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, 'anoints' with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God who has worked and still works, who always acts.

I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.

God is not afraid of new things.

This is the mission of every Christian: lumina pandit - to spread the light and to tell the world of God's love.

I feel so low that instead of picking myself up I have to cut others down.

Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

It is neither a culture of confrontation nor a culture of conflict which builds harmony within and between peoples, but rather a culture of encounter and a culture of dialogue; this is the only way to peace.