"We are living in a culture of waste. This culture of waste has made us insensitive even to the waste of food, which is even more despicable when many men and women, children and elderly, still suffer …"

"We have forgotten to weep. We have forgotten to weep for the victims of war, for the poor, for the discarded."

"We must not be afraid of dialogue."

"Corruption is the gangrene of a people."

"The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!"