I believe in the old warrior's credo that "to the victor go the spoils."

To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone.

There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.

Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.

Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person. . . . It gives one the ability to maintain oneself, one's family, to contribute to the growth of one's own nation.

If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.

This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.