Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a computer it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs, the dramas of so many people end up becoming the norm.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

The mercy of Jesus is not just sentiment: indeed it is a force that gives life, that raises man up!

We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.

I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them. Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like them.

Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things.