I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.

At the moment of death we will not be judged according to the number of good deeds we have done or by the diplomas we have received in our lifetime. We will be judged according to the love we have put into our work.

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love; to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place.

Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.

The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.