Giovanni Guareschi

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.