Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

How sad it is when someone comes to you looking for Jesus and all they see is you.

In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action.

At the hour of death when we all come face to face with God we are going to be judged on love: how much we have loved, not how much we have done but how much love we have put in our action.

We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.

The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.