It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity.
- World Youth Day, 2000 -

Dear young people, do not let the time that the Lord gives you go by as though everything happened by chance. Certainly Christ respects our freedom, but it all the joyful or bitter circumstances of life He never stops asking us to believe in Him, in His word, in the reality of the Church, in eternal life.
- World Youth Day, 2000 -