"There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best."

"I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing."

"Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church."

"Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men."

"We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them."

"Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle."

"My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl."

"It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it."