"The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person."

"Do not be afraid of tenderness."

"The world tells us to seek success, power, and money; God tells us to seek humility, service, and love."

"Please, I ask you, be shepherds with the smell of sheep, be shepherds in the midst of your flock, fishers of men."

"We must not be afraid to be a bit messy, to be a bit untidy. The Church should not be a neat and tidy thing."