Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.

As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.

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

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive...that is where God is.

It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.