Dear young people, do not give up your dreams of a more just world!

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

I don't like to speak of Islamic violence, because every day, when I browse the newspapers, I see violence, here in Italy... this one who has murdered his girlfriend, another who has murdered the mother-in-law... and these are baptized Catholics! There are violent Catholics!

The Lord is always there waiting to give us his love: it is an amazing thing, one which never ceases to surprise us!

Money has to serve, not to rule!

I like to speak with the youth, and I like to hear the youth. They always put me in difficulty. They tell me things that I haven't thought of, or that I've partly thought of. The restless youth, the creative youth, I like them!

When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off.