Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.
I have sinned against my brother the ass.
Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.
Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no more highly when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, foolish, and to be despised; since what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.