Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.