"While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit."

"Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God."

"Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives."

"Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible."

"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."

"No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation."

"The beauty of the unknown is that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"Reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."