Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.

My ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised.