"A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person…"

"I prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security."

"Sometimes I have to take a tranquilizer to sleep. I keep calm. If I have a problem, I write it down on a piece of paper and give it to St. Joseph. Now he sleeps on it! And I sleep too. It’s a good way…"

"God always surprises us."

"The Church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules."