Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth.

Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.

Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.

Where there is darkness, let there be light.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!