In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life.

The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.

No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.

In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.