We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.

When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.

A conversion is a lonely experience.

Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest even to the angels.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

We are all one body, we are all one.

True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.