He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.

God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.