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

I do not know what your destiny may be, but I do know this, that not one of you will find the happiness that each of you is seeking until you have first sought and found a way in which to unselfishly serve others.

No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.

The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.